I’ll just leave these photos of a basement wet bar right outta 1968 in memoriam of a house passed up because it gets 7 feet of snow a year. The girls think this old desert rat wouldn’t take it, but I don’t think I’d’a minded waiting out the snow in that basement so much. :D
There’s snow place like home!!!
Man, that is right up my alley….
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula or Alaska.
California’s Sierra Nevada does not do too bad either.
We did get 4 or 5 feet several winters in VA.
I shoveled my share of snow as a kid in flagstaff. (Three years of heavy 15+ inch snow storms during my time there.) I’ll pass. Honestly, I don’t mind the snow or the cold so much, but 16-year-old me can handle the job of dealing with it a lot better than 51-year-old me.
Hi, I didn’t find a contact email so I apologize for misusing this comment in my desparate trial to reach out to you.
I found a scanned page from the 1964 NOMDA Blue Book with an IBM TypeFace (“Code 47 / PH / IBM Text Type”) and I’d kindly ask you if you have the full scan (the page seems to be cropped) with a full sample of the typeface.
This would be highly appreciated.
Best regards, and greetings from sunny Munich in Germany!
Christoph Mussenbrock (feel free to burn after reading :-)
Nope, that’s the way the page is in the book.
Thx!! The book seems to be pretty rare?
If you don’t mint: Here’s an example of an early 60th text page, in my opinion this is the IBM Text Type font (Code 47/Typemark PH) in the book. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NjoUdrWdCqCWf6dAJbzh4rWaMrXosUm8/view?usp=sharing
Was the IBM Executive capable of typesetting justified text? Looks like amazing quality for 1963.
Best, Christoph
I actually found an IBM Executive manual which describes the process of typing justified text. It’s incredible! The text had to be typed twice. Then, you had to manually calculate the additional space to be distributed between the words, and then, using the 2- or 3-unit space, adjust the line. These people had all time of the world!
In the manual, they bragg “Since line lengths vary, the right margin in typed copy is usually uneven. On the IBM ”Executive,” however, justification of the right margin can be done with ease.”
Here’s the source; the instructions on justified text are on page 20 and 21.
https://ia801909.us.archive.org/27/items/ibm-executive-typewriter-operating-instructions/IBM%20Executive%20Typewriter%20Operating%20Instructions_text.pdf
Yep, the Executive is Proportionally spaced, as are the Olivetti Graphika, Underwood Raphael and a few others, including the Varityper. They were often used for typesetting until the 1960’s when the IBM Composer came onto the scene offering multiple font balls and Proportional justification in multiple styles & sizes. The Composer ruled the phototypesetting scene until the late 80’s when optical typesetters came for a very short while before computer-generated typesetting shoved them all into the bin of history.