A friend is reaching out to Ian Frazer, who authored a piece called "typewriter man" that references this claim, to obtain the provenance of it. I will return to provide an update (and update Wikipedia), if something of substance results.

If I don't return before the reply window closes for this thread, check Wikipedia for those who encounter this thread in the future.

I'm going to trust the family over Wikipedia.

I didn’t say they were lying. I thought it’d be enjoyable to keep pulling the historical thread to see where it leads and codify it in a knowledge repository of some permanence (stick the docs into an IA item, cite it in Wikipedia). Scratching my digital historian itch, doing the future a favor, that’s all.

Regardless, thanks for the post, I really enjoyed a peak into Pearl and Martin’s work, and yours.

I have a reaction when we've got years (and years and years) of this and someone says "well, they're fighting about it on Wikipedia" like that means a single darn thing.

Glad you like the stuff; always up for people having the specific link.

I don’t blame you at all. I just wanted to make my intent clear.