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 ...

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 ...

Credit: Lucas Dul It’s a Wednesday afternoon, and Lucas Dul is behind the service counter of his shop, Typewriter Chicago, ...

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 ...

Decades of curated profiles and professional content instantly disappeared into the ether. I was the type who double-locked ...

Coincident with the new movie, "Reagan," is the release of an important new book about the Reagan presidency.

Fourth was the printer, a ponderous machine, built like a battleship, which had been an IBM Selectric typewriter before it was converted to accept printing instructions from a computer.

which IBM hopefully predicts will soon be as obsolete as quill pens. The “Selectric,” as it is called, is shaped like an ordinary typewriter, but its carriage does not move, nor do the keys ...

Kennedy was sworn in as president and the IBM Selectric typewriter was first introduced to the market. Since then, there’s been a communications explosion—including the invention of social ...

It has stood the test of time. My parents ran an engineering firm when I grew up, and while my dad often went out for business lunches, my mom preferred to stay in and eat at her desk. She had a ...

Coincident with the new movie, “Reagan,” is the release of an important new book about the Reagan presidency.

Over this period, campaign speeches, inaugural addresses and State of the Union addresses flowed out of Ken Khachigian's IBM Selectric typewriter, producing the words and imagery helping Reagan ...