Introduced in 1961 by IBM, the Selectric was the ... Allowing different fonts to be used by easily switching balls, the Selectric became extremely popular. See typewriter. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

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 ...

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.