On 21-12-2014 12:57, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> Don't ask me how I found this, but:
>
> http://thesis.library.caltech.edu/2441/1/Knuth_de_1963.pdf
>
> Anybody have any ideas how this was typeset?
>
> It *looks* like it was written on a typewriter. But that obviously can't
> be true, because typewriters don't have Greek letters and other
> mathematical symbols on them. So... how?
>
> (Incidentally, I bought a book on Galios Theory from Amazon. It was only

> to read complicated formulas...)

I think though this was typed using a typewriter, although one of the 
more advanced ones of that time: electric, with ball-like type heads 
that you could switch for other type faces. They were expensive machines 
back then. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter

and especially the part about IBM Selectric. Those came on the market in 
1961, so that would explain your document.

Thomas

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