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. Scharon Harding – Apr 12, 2023 4:26 ...

IBM’s Selectric line of typewriters were quite popular in the 1960s, thanks in part to an innovation called the typeball which allowed for easy font changes on a single machine. Unfortunately… ...

IBM’s Selectric typewriter hasn’t been made for 25 years, but it seems to be getting a second wind in our culture. Today marks the machine’s 50th anniversary, in IBM’s 100th year.

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… ...

A Selectric is nothing without a type ball, ... Revive your vintage IBM Selectric typewriter with 3D-printable golf balls. ... People using font when they mean typeface is a pet peeve of mine.

Later this month, IBM will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Selectric typewriter. Released on July 31, 1961, the Selectric was unarguably a game-changer in the typewriter space.

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.

Technologizer has a great retrospective on one of the most powerful information creation machines ever built - the IBM Selectric. The result of "seven years of research," the Selectric typewriter ...

And IBM’s iconic Selectric typewriter, with its interchangeable font balls, liberated typewriter users from the monotony of single typefaces in the 1960s. But oddly enough, ...

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 ...