Allowing different fonts to be used by easily switching balls, the Selectric became extremely popular. See typewriter. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...

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.

It wasn’t just any typewriter but a vintage IBM Selectric II. I moved all 37 pounds of it to the trunk of my car. There’s a scene in “Mad Men” where a new IBM Selectric arrives at the ...