geekhack

geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: Peter on Thu, 28 April 2011, 09:42:38

Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: Peter on Thu, 28 April 2011, 09:42:38: [ATTACH=CONFIG]17726[/ATTACH]

What is the name of the type-face and what is the make/model typewriter that wrote it ?

(the original jpeg is 5MB+ and almost 3 times bigger.)
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: wanabe on Thu, 28 April 2011, 10:22:13: Are you the guy trying to dispute the "K" ?
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: ricercar on Thu, 28 April 2011, 19:25:37: I went to an angnostic Easter service myself.
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: quadibloc on Thu, 28 April 2011, 19:36:51: At least it isn't proportionally spaced, so we won't have the question of whether or not they had laser printers in 1961...
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: keyboardlover on Thu, 28 April 2011, 19:44:44: I guess you don't have to know how to spell to be an "agnostic".
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: Ekaros on Thu, 28 April 2011, 20:06:18: Yep, we won't say if spells work or not. Can't reasonably give answer either way... ;D
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: Ekaros on Thu, 28 April 2011, 20:18:15: BTW, what is up with Americans giving their own names to kids?

Will the next president be Jr. too?
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: Lanx on Thu, 28 April 2011, 20:32:44: sr and jr is pretty stupid imo, give the kid his own identity, for more stupid with naming try googling george forman and his family, all full of george.
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: speakeasy on Thu, 28 April 2011, 23:59:29: (http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/8118/shoppedq.jpg)

also lol @ someone named Ukelele as a witness for a Hawaii birth certificate

gotta love how worked up people are getting about this.
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: quadibloc on Fri, 29 April 2011, 04:15:06: Quote from: Lanx;338939
sr and jr is pretty stupid imo, give the kid his own identity,
"It is common... to shudder at the thought of auditing a Junior case." So there are those who agree with that, even if their reasons are a little strange.
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: Peter on Mon, 02 May 2011, 09:14:04: So, none of you guys recognize the typeface ?
Or are experts in old-time typewriters so you can tell me the make/model in question ?
The STASI could have established it in minutes and they didn't even have modern computers, they had ROBOTRONS (at the end) !!!

I'm actually serious about the question !!
Why ??
Because I want to expose Alex Jones as the crappy, sloppy Journalist he is !!
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: ch_123 on Mon, 02 May 2011, 10:41:36: His father must have been very unimaginative giving him both his first AND middle name.
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: ch_123 on Mon, 02 May 2011, 11:01:30: I think Geekhack whackos have been downhill ever since timw4mail claimed that he believed 2/3s of the world's population was going to burn in hell. Everything has been a disappointment since then.
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: keyboardlover on Mon, 02 May 2011, 11:03:56: That's a good thing. Keeps the lulz factor high.

Meanwhile, better bring a book if you want to lurk at deskthority.
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: Lanx on Mon, 02 May 2011, 12:23:31: Quote from: ripster;340424
Oh, THAT'S what happened to Welly.

I was certain KBL was gonna finish off RiGs much like he did to Welly as well.
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: keyboardlover on Mon, 02 May 2011, 12:53:01: RiGS def hasn't been posting much lately.
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: vils on Mon, 02 May 2011, 14:17:23: Quote from: ripster;340353
Better than his mom's first name, Stanley
I hit nails with a Stanley...
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: curzen on Mon, 02 May 2011, 18:53:52: easter is irrelevant to me, I guess my kids will do the eggs and chocolate thing a few years from now
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: Lanx on Mon, 02 May 2011, 18:56:24: Quote from: curzen;340662
easter is irrelevant to me, I guess my kids will do the eggs and chocolate thing a few years from now

Don't forget visiting the mall and waiting in line to take pictures with the bunny.
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: speakeasy on Tue, 03 May 2011, 14:07:31: Just saw this today. So does this have any validity?
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: Lanx on Tue, 03 May 2011, 16:36:54: Quote from: speakeasy;341150

Just saw this today. So does this have any validity?

He sounds like an idiot, couldn't even try to listen to him.
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: RiGS on Tue, 03 May 2011, 17:06:30: Sure, everyone who don't agree with that **** must be an idiot...
You guys are suffering from a huge blind-spot.
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: Lanx on Tue, 03 May 2011, 17:19:50: Quote from: keyboardlover;340451
RiGS def hasn't been posting much lately.

He's back you loose

RiGs I'll pre-post some of your savior for you so you don't have to, here's the latest!
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: speakeasy on Thu, 05 May 2011, 04:46:31: Quote from: Lanx;341235
He sounds like an idiot, couldn't even try to listen to him.

http://www.denninger.net/

I've never heard of the guy before, so I googled him and found his site. Seems like he would fit in here pretty well lol.
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: Lanx on Thu, 05 May 2011, 09:46:02: what tha... webpage from 1996.
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: audioave10 on Thu, 05 May 2011, 10:22:25: I'm guessing it was typed on this one...

(http://www.toomanymornings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/underwood_typewriter.jpg)
Title: What TYPEWRITER wrote Obamas cert ?
Post by: Peter on Thu, 05 May 2011, 14:33:47: Quote from: ripster;340284
Not any of these.
Show Image
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=10592&stc=1&d=1275664880)

Show Image
(http://geekhack.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=2944&stc=1&d=1246302910)

Obviously :happy:
I'm almost certain it was written on a (semi-) mechanical typewriter, based on the 'flying' capital letters a few places in the document, the white spots in the letters and the uneven spacing .
It also seems the typist had the common habit of using *O* instead of *zero* (or is it vice-versa, I've seen that as well ? ) ..

I'm truly flabbergasted by the fact that a guy who calls himself a 'Journalist' would base his assertion of a legal document on a digital .pdf-representation, perceived as 'fake' because it has OCR-layers (!!). Really, I find it scandalous; maybe, if someone could tell him the exact machine it was written on, he would realise that you need to check your facts before jumping to alarmist conclusions ?