I would like to see a comparison of typewritten messages from both Zodiac and Kaczynski. There could be common typographic errors, similar spacings, etc.
Graysmith in his book Zodiac states that Zodiac used a "portable Royal typewriter with elite type, Canterbury shaded." Whatever that means.
The Royal typewriter company existed from about 1906 to the mid 1970's. Starting in about 1936, they produced a model called the Royal Portable, but later they made a number of different "portable" typewriters with different model names.
Elite type means simply that it was a "12 pitch" typewriter. That is, there would be 12 letters per linear inch and six lines per inch vertically (single space setting). Other typewriters are mostly "10 pitch" models, which have slightly larger print, sometimes referred to as "Pica".
Older typewriters had one kind of type or another, but what they started life with is what they stayed, with slight imperfections. It was not until the advent of the electrical IBM selectrics that interchangable type balls came into being. But even then, a machine was either "12 pitch" or "10 pitch". Very late in the typewriter era, the Selectric III came along on which you could choose either 10 or 12 pitch. Shortly after that, computers made typewriters all but extinct.
I could find no explanation of "Canterbury shaded" in regard to typewriters. Perhaps it refers to the fact that the letters produced looked like a printer's type set by that name.
When the suspect in the Cheri Jo Bates case wrote police, he used all capital letters. I have seen the text of that message, but not the actual document or a photo of it. It is said that he used a number of papers and carbons to come up with a poor quality last copy which he sent to police. Does anyone know of other Zodiac correspondance in which he used a typewriter?
Kaczynski supposedly mailed two typewritten carbon copies of his Manifesto to the Washington Post and the New York Times. Rumor has it that the FBI found the origional document and the typewriter which produced it in Kaczynski's cabin.
Certainly, FBI agents made such statements during their 1996 victory dances and hi fives while taking two weeks to search the cabin. Presumably they found them "with both hands and a flash light". But for some strange reason neither the typewriter nor the origional manifesto was ever shown to the public or put into evidence during Ted's trial.
Getting away from the FBI, there should be photos or copies of what Unibom sent to those newspapers - and that could be compared with the Zodiac type written examples.
Graysmith in his book Zodiac states that Zodiac used a "portable Royal typewriter with elite type, Canterbury shaded." Whatever that means.
The Royal typewriter company existed from about 1906 to the mid 1970's. Starting in about 1936, they produced a model called the Royal Portable, but later they made a number of different "portable" typewriters with different model names.
Elite type means simply that it was a "12 pitch" typewriter. That is, there would be 12 letters per linear inch and six lines per inch vertically (single space setting). Other typewriters are mostly "10 pitch" models, which have slightly larger print, sometimes referred to as "Pica".
Older typewriters had one kind of type or another, but what they started life with is what they stayed, with slight imperfections. It was not until the advent of the electrical IBM selectrics that interchangable type balls came into being. But even then, a machine was either "12 pitch" or "10 pitch". Very late in the typewriter era, the Selectric III came along on which you could choose either 10 or 12 pitch. Shortly after that, computers made typewriters all but extinct.
I could find no explanation of "Canterbury shaded" in regard to typewriters. Perhaps it refers to the fact that the letters produced looked like a printer's type set by that name.
When the suspect in the Cheri Jo Bates case wrote police, he used all capital letters. I have seen the text of that message, but not the actual document or a photo of it. It is said that he used a number of papers and carbons to come up with a poor quality last copy which he sent to police. Does anyone know of other Zodiac correspondance in which he used a typewriter?
Kaczynski supposedly mailed two typewritten carbon copies of his Manifesto to the Washington Post and the New York Times. Rumor has it that the FBI found the origional document and the typewriter which produced it in Kaczynski's cabin.
Certainly, FBI agents made such statements during their 1996 victory dances and hi fives while taking two weeks to search the cabin. Presumably they found them "with both hands and a flash light". But for some strange reason neither the typewriter nor the origional manifesto was ever shown to the public or put into evidence during Ted's trial.
Getting away from the FBI, there should be photos or copies of what Unibom sent to those newspapers - and that could be compared with the Zodiac type written examples.