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16 May 2024 22:06:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Light reading  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 22 Dec 2014 10:03:56
Message: <549832dc$1@news.povray.org>

> 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?

IBM Selectric typewriter.

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