Rochester State Junior College graduated 42 students following the completion of the first and second summer sessions. International Business Machines Corp. introduced a new Selectric II typewriter.

The new IBM typewriter, the “Corrective Selectric II,” has the capability for the operator to backspace, hit a correcting key, and then type in the correct character.

Instead of an electronic keyboard, the IBM Selectric II uses and electromechanical keyboard to tilt and rotate the Selectric’s typeball.

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 3D… ...

IBM Selectric II Typewriter by American designer Eliot Fette Noyes, manufactured by the IBM Corporation, 1971. Indianapolis Museum of Art/Getty Images "But a lot of people just enjoy typewriters ...

DIY IBM Selectric type balls give ’60s typewriters new life (and Comic Sans) A Selectric is nothing without its golf ball, but finding one is a costly pain.

Over the 23 years that the Selectric was IBM's primary typewriter, the company continued to improve upon Noyes' legendary design, releasing the Selectric II in 1971 and the Selectric III in the 1980s.

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 ...

Typewriter in bright blue housing with a boxy profile; black QWRTY keyboard and function keys; black plate IBM logo with "Correcting Selectric II" below in small silver square on top right ledge of ...