Here’s a story: In my earlier years, I did all of my papers on an IBM Selectric Typewriter. I wrote all of my papers in longhand and then typed them up on the trusty IBM Selectric. For those of you ...

As Cold War tensions increased throughout the 1970s, the Soviets pulled out all the stops when it came to digging up information from US diplomats. This NSA memo from 2012 explains how several IBM ...

IBM Selectric打字机是一项重大创新，使商用打字机市场发生了彻底的变化。它提高了速度、准确度和灵活性，使人们能够打印出书面文字，并且为将打字机键盘作为人机交互的主要方法铺平了道路。 1961年推出的 Selectric 打字机一夜成名。IBM 销售员 John Vinlove 在 1986 ...

The new models are reportedly 0.2 mm shorter to address this and adjust the letter rotation, since it was “90 degrees off.” Because of this, we can’t verify how successful these models would be in ...

"Why would anyone seek the help of an attorney who makes a fool of himself in his TV ads?" "Now that AMC has taken over the Carmike theaters in Savannah, let's hope that they get a much-needed ...

Imagine all of the waiting rooms and typing classes it's seen in its half-century on earth. IBM this week is celebrating the 50th birthday of its best-selling Selectric line of office typewriters.

The IBM Selectric typewriter, arguably Lexington's most famous product, turns 50 on Sunday. From what is now Lexmark International's headquarters along New Circle Road, thousands of IBM employees ...

On July 31, 1961 -- fifty years ago this coming weekend -- IBM's groundbreaking new typewriter went on sale. The IBM Selectric reinvented the typewriter by introducing the typeball, a spherical metal ...

A few other characteristics came to mind that also help set it apart: I don't know if it was the first, or not, but something that might not be immediately obvious to some is that the Selectric had ...

Andra Langston Gyor, whose father worked at IBM, started using a Selectric when she was 9. At Tates Creek High School, she was the typist for the school newspaper, the Masthead. In this photo from the ...