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Wait... This is 2012 and they wrote this document on a typewriter?

Why?

Performance of the typist? Security concerns?




It's Courier, not an actual typewriter.


Haha, I got fooled by the by fact it's a scanned document + the ascii art in the corner.

Well, I guess they're still using computers as if they were just typewriters...


They have a policy of printing & scanning documents for archival purposes.

It also seems they have a policy of using Courier, which is probably a carry-over from the days of paper records. It isn't the most readable font ever, but it is surely one of the most legible- a good thing for documents meant for preservation.


Lots of courts have very specific rules about the format of documents. I think it's at least partly to keep lawyers from playing schoolboy-style shenanigans like making lengthy documents seem short or vice versa.




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