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IBM Selectric typewriter The IBM Selectric typewriter (occasionally known as the IBM Golfball typewriter) is the electric typewriter design that brought the typewriter into the electronic age. The Selectric II was squarer at the corners, whereas the Selectric I was rounder. The Selectric II had a lever (at the top left of the "carriage") that allowed characters to be shifted up to a half space to the left (for inserting a word one character longer or shorter in place of a deleted mistake), whereas the Selectric I did not. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ib/IBM_Golfball.html   (460 words)

IBM Selectric typewriter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The IBM Selectric typewriter (occasionally known as the IBM Golfball typewriter) is the electric typewriter design that brought the typewriter into the electronic age starting in 1961. A Selectric is a marvel of mechanical and production—but not electronic—engineering. The Selectric II had a Dual Pitch option to allow it to be switched (with a lever at the top left of the "carriage") between 10 and 12 characters per inch, whereas the Selectric I had one fixed "pitch". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter   (2414 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) It was a hybrid "Selectric" typewriter that was modified to have proportional spaced fonts. IBM had a research center at MIT, and their staff wanted to build a much simpler multi-user system. The 650 had a followon, the IBM 7070 (1959), architecturally similar but with transistors instead of tubes and cores instead of a drum, and which came with not only card reader and punch, but... www.lycos.com /info/ibm.html   (691 words)

IBM Selectric Parts The.0025" tapes are the same as the original IBM tapes (flexible): the.004" are slightly thicker and less flexible. Upper Socket for Selectric I and II typewriters. Cardholder or card-guide for Selectric II and III. www.cmfg.com /ibm_selectric.htm   (282 words)

IBM 1130 IBM 1130 The punched paper tape unit on the 1130 may be placed elsewhere for convenience. The IBM 1130 was introduced in 1965 and is considered an early third generation computer. The IBM 1442 was also capable of being used as an output device and could punch 120 cards per minute. ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/vs-ibm-1130.html   (2103 words)

IBM Terms of use - United States IBM assumes no responsibility regarding the accuracy of the information that is provided by IBM and use of such information is at the recipient's own risk. IBM provides no assurances that any reported problems may be resolved with the use of any information that IBM provides. By sending IBM any information or material, you grant IBM an unrestricted, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, transmit and distribute those materials or information, and you also agree that IBM is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send us for any purpose. www.ibm.com /trademarks.html   (618 words)

For the Record: IBM’s “Selectric Composer” and Variable Type | Misc. | J-Log Journalism Blog The IBM device was called a “Selectric Composer,” and went into service in the fall of 1968. According to the IBM web site the “electric composer” system was introduced two years earlier in 1966. The carrier in the IBM SELECTRIC Typewriter is the small casting which carries the typehead, the ribbon, and the print mechanism.) A rotary system would allow the possibility of gear coupling, and gear coupling permits “gear shifting” to change the coupling ratio. www.mallasch.com /journalism/article.php?sid=1480   (603 words)

IBM - The Selectric Typewriter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Knowing that IBM's new Selectric typewriter was coming out with a "dished" keyboard (as all are today), I asked if the keyboard "plane" could be "as defined by the bottom and top rows of keys". And as the Selectric had no real keytops as such, being squarish anyway, I asked if the fingertouch area could be that of a 9/16 inch circle. IBM had purchased the rights to his toy typewriter for children as a large basis for their design. www.trailing-edge.com /~bobbemer/KEYTOPS.HTM   (359 words)

IBM SELECTRIC TYPEWRITERS This was the IBM »SELECTRIC« Typewriter, which replaced type bars and moving carriages with a printing element, a sphere no larger than a golf ball, which bears all alphabet characters, numbers and punctuation symbols. Containing the "dual-pitch" mechanism, the » Selectric II « Typewriter enables the typist to switch from ten-pitch (ten characters per inch), commonly used for routine correspondence, to twelve pitch (twelve characters per inch), for use in typing business forms. Since their introduction, IBM »SELECTRIC« Typewriters have become among the most popular typewriters for training in schools and universities, as well as in most aspects of business. www.tfh-berlin.de /~hamann/typwrtr/index2.html   (540 words)

IBM Selectric II Typewriter IBM Selectric II The IBM Lexmark Selectric series has been a solid powerhouse machine providing the best in features and reliability for decades of service. The IBM Selectric 2 features a 15 inch carriage, dual pitch (10 & 12 characters per inch), beige Correcting Selectric. All IBM Wheelwriter and Selectric models are refurbished and carry a 90-day warranty. www.typewriters.com /ibm-selectric-2.html   (195 words)

Selectric Typewriter Museum-IBM Selectric Typewriters Selectric and Selectric II type elements (balls) have 88 characters and white lettering. Here is a picture of some IBM Selectric tools, given to me by a kind fellow who used to service these machines. The IBM Selectric was introduced in 1961 (just like me!), and was revolutionary, in that the platen does not move, but instead the type element moves. www.selectric.org /selectric   (551 words)

IBM Batteries - IBM Laptop Battery products from AtBatt.com IBM Laptop batteries are specifically designed for each laptop brand and model. NiCad, NiMH and Li-Ion IBM laptop batteries are all fundamentally different from one another and cannot be substituted unless the laptop has been pre-configured from the manufacturer to accept more than one type of battery chemistry. IBM and the IBM Family logo are registered trademarks of IBM™. www.atbatt.com /laptop-batteries/b/IBM.asp   (793 words)

Review: IBM 42H1292 and 1391401 keyboards The object of my perverse desire is an IBM model 42H1292 buckling-spring 101 key industrial heavy duty keyboard, available from www.pckeyboard.com for $US49 (versus a full retail price more like $US69). These keyboards feel very much like an old IBM Selectric typewriter - there are plenty of these ironclad behemoths still in service, and they may herniate anyone that has to move them but they're darn nice to type on. Keyboards like these are so expensive partly because IBM insisted on making them in places better known for liquor production than for cheap computer gear (these ones were made in Scotland), but mainly because they use discrete keyswitches. www.dansdata.com /ibmkeyboard.htm   (1844 words)

IBM Selectric used as printer on Apple ][+   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) The Selectrics that were used as printers > normally had solenoids fitted (by IBM) on the selector rails inside. Well, the rig I saw had a solenoid driver box that was professionally manufactured, presumably by IBM as the old man indicated that IBM furnished the typewriters as printers. I would imagine that you'd have to build a box that takes data from the Mac (or for that matter any computer's) serial port and converts it to the signals that need to be sent to the box. www.classiccmp.org /pipermail/cctalk/1998-May/100826.html   (381 words)

DEFEAT JOHN JOHN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Two people so far have attempted to claim the prize on the basis that the IBM Selectric Composer was a proportionally-spaced font typewriter available at that time (though not yet in wide use). In fact, even CBS News is apparently going on the air tonight with "evidence" that this model and several other typewriters of the day could even do super- or sub-script characters. Yet the IBM Selectric Composer's own manual makes superscripting of the type seen in the CBS forgeries impossible. defeatjohnjohn.com /2004/09/10000-part-two-ibm-selectric.htm   (400 words)

The Dead media Project:Working Notes:17.0 The Selectric is now out of production and, according to author Sam Kalow, IBM has dropped parts and service for these models. Except for the IBM Personal Computer, the Selectric was used by more people and sold more units than any other IBM machine. The lack of a moving carriage on the Selectric allowed famed industrial designer Elliot Noyes to create a cover design for the machine that was sculptured, flowing, functional, and totally integrated == one that had never before been seen on a typewriter. www.deadmedia.org /notes/17/170.html   (1024 words)

The IBM 1130 Shortly after I graduated the printer was replaced with an IBM 1403 printer which had a blazzingly fast top speed of 600 lines per minute. The system console, which was attached to the CPU could also be used for input and output, but this was just a modified IBM Selectric typewriter and had a top speed of about 5 characters second. The maximum amount of addressable memory for the IBM 1130 was 16K (16 bit words) and the system that my high school had contained only 8K. www.kaibab.org /bob/ibm1130.htm   (896 words)

IBM Selectric used as printer on Apple ][+   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) IBM Selectric used as printer on Apple ][+ I could've sworn that the operator's console on several >> IBM machines was a modified Selectric. I understand the 134.7 baud rate is the fastest speed that you can drive the Selectric mechanism before it flies apart :-) Did my honors thesis on this back in 1977 using a typesetting program known as Cicero running on the -10 written at ARL (Aeronautical Research Labs, in Melbourne Australia). www.classiccmp.org /pipermail/cctalk/1998-May/100807.html   (317 words)

The Shape of Days: The IBM Selectric Composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Whenever the topic has turned to the Selectric Composer, it has been dismissed out-of-hand as being far too expensive an item to find in an office on an Air National Guard base: The machine sold for anywhere from $3,600 to $4,400, and fonts were extra and not cheap. The letterforms in the IBM’s Press Roman typeface are very close to the letterforms in the CBS memo. Based on the significant differences in letterspacing between the Composer font and the font used in the memos, the iffy nature of the superscript “th,” and the unbelievable coincidence of the precisely centered headlines, I’m ready to say that the IBM Selectric Composer was not used to produce these memos. www.theshapeofdays.com /2004/09/the_ibm_selectr.html   (1646 words)

Fits & Starts: Memory Lane Friday #2: The IBM Selectric   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) I joke that I'm one of the last adults in the United States who actually wrote high school term papers on a typewriter. But before that happy event, I composed a 35-page term paper as the culmination of a two-year English "paper chase" college prep course on an IBM Selectric. Turns out Hunter S. Thompson loved his IBM Selectric. fitstarts.blogspot.com /2006/08/memory-lane-friday-2-ibm-selectric.html   (269 words)

[No title] The IBM Selectric was originally designed as I O (input/ output device) for computers. The IBM Selectric is designed and has features so users who are not familiar with typewriter would be able to use it with the greatest of ease. The IBM Selectric typewriter series was designed with the technician in mind. jitofficeproducts.com /page6.html   (458 words)

Opinion: Bush's Exam Doc -- Real or Fake? PC Magazine - Find Articles One of them was typed on an IBM Selectric Composer typewriter; the other was typed in Microsoft Word. I reproduced the hyphenation of the IBM original by manually inserting hyphens (without spaces afterwards) after the same letters where hyphens occur in the IBM text. The source of the image made on an IBM Selectric Composer was the printed manual for that IBM typewriter. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdpcm/is_200409/ai_n7184257   (595 words)

IBM 6405 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The output was a large selectric typewriter that was mounted above the CPU. The printing was done by a keyboardless IBM Selectric typewriter. The 6400 series was developed by IBM in Lexington, Kentucky USA in early 1960s.Manufacturing was done by IBM in Lexington and by IBM in Don Mills, Ontario, Canada. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/IBM_6405   (214 words)

IBM Selectric Composer required you to type document twice!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) Besides being around four times more expensive to purchase than a regular IBM Selectric the website had a bit of information about the IBM Selectric Composer that hasn't been mentioned in anything I've seen so far. The IBM Selectric Composer was announced around 1967 with the sales price of about $4,400. The IBM Selectric Typewriter sold for about $400-$450 for a plain vanilla machine. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1213390/posts   (2744 words)

One Hand Clapping As I and many others have written (I'm not even going to bother with a link), one of the most important indicators that the memos showed by CBS News are forgeries is the presence of proportional spacing in their text. It was called the IBM Composer and it was introduced in 1966, according to IBMComposer.org. I have not found any mention of kerning in either IBM's sales brochure (online) for the Composer, nor the contents page of the user's guide, although the user's guide does have a page number for "measuring width of proportionally spaced letters," which sounds like kerning. www.donaldsensing.com /2004/09/ibm-introduced-proportional-spacing.html   (921 words)

Lift-Off Tape, For IBM Selectric™ Correctable Film Ribbon for IBM Selectric™ III after 2/82 Selectric™ III after 2/82, SPC Personal, Selectric™ III with ribbon cassette system. IBM Selectric IIIT after 2 / 82, SPC Personal, Selectric IIIT www.keysan.com /big/pic43410000.html   (100 words)

Office Machines Americana- IBM Operators Manual For The Selectric II And III Correcting Typewriters. IBM Selectric Models I / II and III Typewriter Service Manual a very large service manual. Pictorial Reference/Adjustment Manual for the IBM "Selectric Typewriter" - 265 adjust illustrated. users.lewiston.com /ejorgens/office/ibm/ibm.htm   (162 words)

2004 Presidential Election 4130+: Re: IBM Selectric The typeball design had many advantages, especially in eliminating of "jams" when more than one key was struck at once, and in the ability to change the typeball, allowing multiple fonts to be used in a single document. Selectric mechanisms were widely incorporated into computer terminals in the 1970s Please follow the guidelines set forth in the Suite101.com Posting Etiquette when adding to the discussion. www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/108333/1005201   (277 words)

IBM timeline 1961: time-sharing on IBM 709 and 7090 [cite] 1981: 12Aug: IBM announces PC [cite] choice of $40 PC-DOS or $240 CP/M-86 [cite] 4.77MHz 8088, 64k, floppy drive, for $3000 [cite] Gates & Allen are not invited to the rollout [cite] IBM version released sooner than Tandy (SCO) but buggier w/bad docs [cite] www.robotwisdom.com /linux/ibm.html   (1485 words)

eBay Store - RCScopy: IBM: NIB Network Printer 24 Toner Cartridge 63H5721 75P5903   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) IBM InfoPrint 20 (4320) Compatible Laser Cartr 90H0748 NIB Genuine IBM Infoprint 1120/1125 High Yield 28P2494 IBM Network Printer NP 17 (4317) Compatible 63H2401 stores.ebay.com /RCScopy_IBM_W0QQcolZ4QQdirZ1QQfsubZ11QQftidZ1QQtZkm   (250 words)

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