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Selectric typewriter

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Selectric typewriter

Introduced in 1961 by IBM, the first typewriter to use a golf ball-like type element that moved across the paper, rather than moving the paper carriage across the print mechanism. Allowing different fonts to be used by switching balls, it rapidly became one of the world's most popular typewriters. IBM always excelled in electromechanical devices. In 1991, IBM's typewriter division was spun off into Lexmark International. See typewriter.

The Selectric "Golf" Ball
Selectric typewriters were office workhorses for decades. This type element sits in a 27-year old Selectric II that was purchased in 1979 and still going strong in 2006, probably because the machine was professionally cleaned every four or five years.



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Or perhaps it is the heady combination of what she calls "three very, very different women," but whatever it is, the film's moments running on the flat-screen televisions scattered around the otherwise old-fashioned work station cubicles (think IBM Selectric typewriters and dial phones) had partygoers mesmerized.
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But in the office they had an IBM Selectric typewriter.
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The correcting Selectric typewriter was the height of technology," said Christopher Bisgaard, managing partner at Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard LLP.
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