For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the electric IBM Selectric — are but memories, if we've heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter ...
On July 31, 1961 -- fifty years ago this coming weekend -- IBM's groundbreaking new typewriter went on sale. The IBM Selectric reinvented the typewriter by introducing the typeball, a spherical metal ...
"Why would anyone seek the help of an attorney who makes a fool of himself in his TV ads?" "Now that AMC has taken over the Carmike theaters in Savannah, let's hope that they get a much-needed ...
While cleaning out the garage of an elderly friend who died recently, what did I find under a pile of 1967 Playboys but a typewriter. It wasn't just any typewriter but a vintage IBM Selectric II. I ...
Walk the ninth-floor hallway of the historic Flood Building on Market Street and you may detect an office sound that has all but vanished, even from the Flood, which has not changed much since 1904.
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WASHINGTON – The latest typewriters known to have been in use at the Texas Air National Guard base where George W. Bush was stationed in the early 1970s can’t produce the dubious documents CBS News ...
While helping a friend deal with the remnants of our church garage sale today, I came across a pair of IBM Selectric typewriters among the junk, which I proceeded to rescue from the garbage heap. They ...