The IBM Selectric changed typewriters as we knew them. Their distinctive ball element replaced the clunky row of typebars and made most people faster typists. When [Steve Malikoff] thought about 3 ...

This NSA memo from 2012 explains how several IBM Selectric typewriters used in the Moscow and Leningrad offices were successfully bugged with electromechanical devices that could possibly have ...

Introduced in 1961 by IBM, the Selectric was the first typewriter to use a golf ball-like type element that moved across the paper, rather than moving the paper carriage past the individual ...

The actor lent 35 machines from his collection to the Sag Harbor venue, which will also be presented a concert by the Boston ...

Popular in the 1980s, Diablo printers produced print quality similar to IBM's Selectric typewriters. Non-Diablo printers emulated the Diablo command set. See Selectric typewriter. THIS DEFINITION ...