Converting typewriters into keyboards has been done for a very long time; teletypes, the first computer keyboards, were basically typewriters, and the 1970s saw a number of IBM Selectrics ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...