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 ...

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 ...

If you learned to type anytime in the mid-part of the 20th century, you probably either had or wanted an IBM Selectric. These were workhorses and changed typing by moving from typebars to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...