Staff were stunned when Bill Rhoda strolled into the Northeast Philadelphia Airport one bitterly cold Saturday in December ...

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 ...

A few other characteristics came to mind that also help set it apart: I don't know if it was the first, or not, but something that might not be immediately obvious to some is that the Selectric had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The IBM Selectric, which was built in Lexington from 1961-1986. (Herald-Leader) Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Cold War tensions increased throughout the 1970s, the Soviets pulled out all the stops when it came to digging up information from US diplomats. This NSA memo from 2012 explains how several IBM ...

The Toyota Camry led the list of 1997’s most stolen cars. Four Rochester basketball players were selected to the boys Big Nine Conference all-conference team. Sam Tri, Evan Odim, and Jesse Kieffer ...

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 ...