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.

An Ohio woman diagnosed with malignant mesothelioma is blaming IBM for her illness. Loretta R. Simpson, 74, of Toledo, accused ...

The new models are reportedly 0.2 mm shorter to address this and adjust the letter rotation, since it was "90 degrees off." Because of this, we can't verify how successful these models would be in ...

My pre-IT-career ambitions started in high school when I took a typing class and was assigned to one of the Selectrics over the numerous manual typewriters in the room. Using a Selectric is a ...

The 1961 introduction of the IBM Selectric may have marked the apex of typewriter technology, the most successful electric typewriter in history and by some, the most coveted. The beginning of the ...

Typewriter Chicago, helping a customer figure out her situation for a writing project she’s working on. The customer’s machine is an IBM Selectric III from the early 1980s, a beast of a device ...

"Typewriters never really went away," said ... who specialized in IBM Selectric repairs. Rhoda wanted to learn, too. Kravitz was happy to teach him. "I just put my head down, and learned how ...

MAN: Typewriter carriages are going the way of the one horse shave. JOHN YANG (voice-over): The 1961 introduction of the IBM Selectric may have marked the apex of typewriter technology ...