
According to other bloggers
Selectric Composers were not only expensive, but really hard to use. They were driven by specialist to produce fliers and news sheet, not used by officers for documents that were to be hidded in personal file, never to see the light of day unless CUA was desired. Think PowerPoint versus Photoshop.
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... a reference to Presidente Arbusto.
-- [link|http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001417.html|Geoffrey K. Pullum]