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.

Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US.

But in this story, one victim had a way with words… Let’s read on… This happened to my friend G, back in the 1960s. He was 14 ...

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 ...