While helping a friend deal with the remnants of our church garage sale today, I came across a pair of IBM Selectric typewriters among the junk, which I proceeded to rescue from the garbage heap. They ...

The Web turns 25 today. Where has it been, and where is it headed? Our newsroom used IBM Selectric typewriters at my first journalism job in the 1980s. It had more to do with the company’s, um, ...

A few other characteristics came to mind that also help set it apart: I don't know if it was the first, or not, but something that might not be immediately obvious to some is that the Selectric had ...

As Cold War tensions increased throughout the 1970s, the Soviets pulled out all the stops when it came to digging up information from US diplomats. This NSA memo from 2012 explains how several IBM ...

As one of the earliest typewriters, the Hammond No. 2 is known for its round type-shuttle mechanism and keyboard that allowed users to see the text being printed as they typed. It appeals to ...

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 character ...

IBM engineer Leon Cooper helped develop the Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter, or MT/ST, the first electronic word-processing machine, beginning in the late 1950s. The Lexington-made product was ...

The Toyota Camry led the list of 1997’s most stolen cars. Four Rochester basketball players were selected to the boys Big Nine Conference all-conference team. Sam Tri, Evan Odim, and Jesse Kieffer ...

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. Because ...

Walk the ninth-floor hallway of the historic Flood Building on Market Street and you may detect an office sound that has all but vanished, even from the Flood, which has not changed much since 1904.