If there’s only lesson to be learned from [alnwlsn]’s conversion of an IBM Selectric typewriter into a serial terminal for Linux, it’s that we’ve been hanging around the wrong garbage cans.

Introduced in 1961 by IBM, the Selectric was the first typewriter to use a golf ball-like type element that moved across the paper, rather than moving the paper carriage past the individual ...

The IBM Selectric changed typewriters as we knew them. Their distinctive ball element replaced the clunky row of typebars and made most people faster typists. When [Steve Malikoff] thought about 3 ...

Fourth was the printer, a ponderous machine, built like a battleship, which had been an IBM Selectric typewriter before it was converted to accept printing instructions from a computer.

Bill Aleshire — a former Travis County judge and tax collector, and an ongoing thorn in the side of any government entity he ...

The device was based on an IBM Selectric Typewriter and had programmable logic and 13 semiconductor chips, some of which Berezin designed.

The same goes for another grammar rule I had no idea hundreds of years of writing brought in, and the computer took ou ...

It wasn’t actual paper, of course, because the 21 st Century columnist writes on his laptop, which is in “dark mode,” ...

Kennedy was sworn in as president and the IBM Selectric typewriter was first introduced to the market. Since then, there’s been a communications explosion—including the invention of social ...

A golf ball-sized element used in typewriters and low-speed teleprinters that contains all the print characters on its outside surface. The type ball was introduced with IBM's Selectric typewriter.

That’s because, former copy editor for the New England Journal of Medicine Jennifer Gonzalez (who “learned to type in 1987 on an IBM Selectric typewriter”) says on her site The Cult Of ...