Luckily, engineer and YouTuber, Bill Hammack, describes how the Selectric’s element works in an unrelated video (below). Hammack explains that the element has a series of typeface letters—both upper ...

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 ...

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 character ...

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. Because ...

Before computers, offices were filled with noise made by this machine that was a huge commercial success: The IBM Selectric typewriter. The old Selectrics are mostly gone, save for the occasional ...

The IBM Selectric, which was built in Lexington from 1961-1986. Tom Eblen Herald-Leader Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com ...

Q: I have an IBM Selectric 3 typewriter. I’m looking for somebody that can service it. The main thing is that certain keys stick. I use a computer for most things, but there are times when I want to ...

With all of the whiz-bang rockets and brain implants we have these days, it’s easy to forget about genius inventions from simpler times. Thankfully, in a video posted to its YouTube channel, the ...