If there’s only lesson to be learned from [alnwlsn]’s conversion of an IBM Selectric typewriter into ... whirlwind tour of the remarkably complex mechanisms that turn keypresses into ...

This NSA memo from 2012 explains how several IBM Selectric typewriters used in ... The sensing part of the keylogging mechanism was buried in part of the typewriter chassis, a metal bar that ...

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 ...