For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the electric IBM Selectric — are but memories, if we've heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter ...
On July 31, 1961 -- fifty years ago this coming weekend -- IBM's groundbreaking new typewriter went on sale. The IBM Selectric reinvented the typewriter by introducing the typeball, a spherical metal ...