More than 25 people, many of them Stewartville volunteer firefighters, applied two coats of Sears Weatherbeater paint to the former house of Richard Sears, co-founder of Sears Roebuck & Co. The house ...

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 is still considered one of the most dramatic improvements in the typewriter space, thanks to its "golf ball" head. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has ...

IBM sold 13 million Selectric typewriters which also served as a precursor to early computer terminals It has been retired for 25 years but IBM will celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the introduction ...

Technologizer has a great retrospective on one of the most powerful information creation machines ever built – the IBM Selectric. The result of “seven years of research,” the Selectric typewriter ...

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.

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 ...

Metal plating doesn't have much strength. If a plastic ball would be flattened, as I expect, a plated plastic ball would collapse just about as fast. Plus, I think you can only plate things that ...

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 ...

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. Because ...