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.

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.

IBM had been in the typewriter business since the early 1930s. The company sold its 1 millionth typewriter in 1958, Twist said. In 1963, just two years after the Selectric's debut, IBM was ...

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.

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The Selectric was great for offices, but the IBM PC took word processing and office work to new heights … continue reading ...

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 in those days was a marketing-driven organization - and I heard an interesting tale about their approach. The original Selectric cost something like $2995. (That's over $30,000 in today's money!) ...

It’s called the IBM Selectric – and it revolutionised office life from 1961 when it was first launched – but it’s universally known as the “golf ball typewriter”.

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