Dale Snell <ddsn...@frontier.com> writes: > > Same here. Alas, "This report is itself an example of a ROFF > generated manuscript." Adding insult to injury, it appears to > have been printed on a (*shudder*) chain printer. Note the > varying baseline heights.
"ROFF is a program which generates microfilm and 7-track binary magnetic tape for off line processing on an IBM Magnetic Tape / Selectric Typewriter..." So, it was almost certainly printed on an automated typewriter. The Selectric used a type ball that tilted and rotated to select the character to print, so it could also create a varying baseline if the tilt mechanism was a bit slow or sticky. -Larry Jones
