Who Can Really Say?

Have At It, Part II

As I mentioned last night, the quickest way to stem the criticism of the infamous 60 Minutes' documents is to slip a piece of paper into a vintage typewriter and reproduce one of the documents. CBS and its defenders claim there's nothing special about MS Word's ability to reproduce the documents because readily available office machines from the early 1970's were equally capable. Moreover, the reward for doing exactly that is now up to $37,900

So as a public service, I'm directing bounty hunters in search of the prize to Ebay, where any number of IBM Selectrics (Models I, II, and III) and IBM Selectric Composers are available for purchase. My personal favorite is this 1961 IBM Model 72 Selectric.

Let's see some of that Can-Do American Spirit folks, some entreprenurial endeavoring, yes even some risk taking. Who will be the first???

[Linked to the Beltway Traffic Jam.]

Posted by Peter at September 14, 2004 06:34 PM