Letters to the Editor
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Malkin:
"...Selectrics existed with proportional font and special character balls could be installed that of course had super- and sub-scripts."
So what? Who disputed that? You aren't addressing the argument, which is that documents created on IBM Selectrics cannot be recreated in MS Word at the default settings. However the disputed documents CAN be easily recreated in MS Word. Don't rely on authority; try it yourself.
As I pointed out, the hardest thing to do is the centered headings. Very difficult to do on a proportional font typewriter, but very easy in MS Word. The disputed documents have centered headings which are not only PEFECTLY CENTERED but IDENTICAL to each other. And yet they were supposed to have been typed months apart. That can't be done on any kind of typewriter, proportional or monospaced.
The documents are shit and so is the thinking that supports them. Blumenthal is making a huge mistake by relying on the word of some authority and not checking the documents himself.