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 ...

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 ...

Ed Reed of Ed's Office Machines has been repairing typewriters and other machines for close to 50 years. He repairs IBM and other vintage typewriters and sells a few refurbished ones. staff The IBM ...

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 ...

IBM's Selectric began its life as a typewriter, but ended it as the first computer keyboard. In the interim, the stylish device became a favored tool of great American writers and dominated the desks ...

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.

This ought to be fun. Like old times. Yeah, it feels good already. What's happening is, I'm tapping out these sentences on my 30-year-old IBM Selectric typewriter. I love this machine. I haven't used ...