IBM Selectric Script font sample. Just the alphabet, numbers, and special characters.

Random memory prompted by a work conversation: When I was a kid, my mom was the secretary for our church, and typed all of the weekly bulletins on an IBM Selectric. My brain still processes the IBM Selectric Script font as her "handwriting" […]

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The 70-year anniversary of two important IBM Selectric patents A celebration of two patents crucial to the iconic IBM Selectric electric typewriter and how it works

Today is the 70th anniversary of two important #IBM #Selectric #typewriter patents! They helped set the stage for one of the coolest and most beautiful typing instruments every made! I wrote a small something for the occasion! sharktastica.co.uk/articles/sel...

View of Typography with the IBM Selectric Composer

Beautiful little paper by Adrian Frutiger

#typography
#selectric #ibm
#univers

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Oh IBM what have you made here. This is what that thing called love at first sight must be all about.😍
#IBM
#Selectric
#Retro

𝐋𝐚 𝐈𝐁𝐌 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 es una máquina de escribir eléctrica que fue introducida por IBM el 27 de julio de 1961 y se convirtió en un hito en la historia. Con diseño revolucionario que ofreció varias mejoras en comparación con la competencia de la época.
#retrocomputingmx #Selectric #TechHistory

Keyboard Patents A gallery list of patents relating to IBM and family keyboard, typewriter and keypunch technology

New page dropped! I created this as a new sources database for future research and articles, but it doubles as a very nice gallery! Besides keyboards, there are also relevant IBM mainframe, #Selectric, #ThinkPad and #TrackPoint patents as well. sharktastica.co.uk/topics/patents

Three new #ibm #selectric type elements arrived today. They're lovely and I'm excited.

I've been told on more than one occasion that I get too intense about things that I like, even though those things are boring. Oh well.

I've been collecting some IBM Selectric fonts, so I made a specimen sheet.
#ibm #typewriter #selectric #fonts

Gunked up ahh Selectric II
#typewriters #ibm #selectric

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#Technology that I don't think ever existed, but which *should* have...

The #microfiche #typewriter. [1]

It is a typewriter very closely resembling an #IBM #Selectric electric typewriter. The keyboard is virtually identical, though the platen and print head are different. Instead of the […]

Spring is in the air. Then the desk. Found it though. Wee pingfukit stopped the space bar from working.

#typewriter #Selectric

A black cat investigates a black typewriter

A tuxedo cat sniffs the backspace key of an IBM Selectric II, wondering what mistakes it has erased.

A black and white cat shoves her nose against the cover of a tired black IBM Selectric. It smells of lost dreams and hopes. Probably belonged to an author. One with dogs.

They maybe stickers, but they are IBM stickers - this Selectric is marked up for the "Symbol" characters - I have a suitable typeball for it.

New #selectric project. This #typewriter smells funny according to my expert consultant.

The IBM is now marinading in solvents and oils, though I can see clockspring-related misery in my future and I still haven't found a source for new sound foam.

Primal Grotesque I was supposed to find my inner strength, or find a new talent, or find God. I found none of those things. Instead, something found me.

The horror story you didn't know you needed to read right now. Featuring ... typewriters!

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#horror #fiction #shortstory #IBM #selectric #typewriter

#selectric

Der nächste Dienstabend der Fachgruppe IuK des #DRK Kreisverband #Tübingen findet am 14.11.2023 um 19 Uhr statt. Treffpunkt ist die Kreisgeschäftsstelle, Steinlachwasen 26 in Tübingen-Derendingen.
Thema ist die Vorstellung der Änderung in der Bedienung der Funkbediensoftware IDECS von #Selectric