The IBM Selectric typewriter turns 50 today. Yes, typewriters are gone now, but I think it's good to honor great designs of the past as well as the present.
And the Selectric was a great, great design.
It redefined the typewriter with two key innovations: a rotating typeball that vastly increased typing speed and could be swapped out to change fonts, and an internal design that moved the typeball across the page instead of moving the carriage, reducing complexity, size, and weight.
It's no wonder Selectrics dominated the typewriter market almost immediately after they were introduced in 1961.
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I loved my selectic. Best typewriter I ever had
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