were basically typewriters, and the 1970s saw a number of IBM Selectrics converted into a keyboard with serial output. Even in recent years, typewriters have been converted into keyboards with the ...

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.

These typewriters offered a pay-as-you-go typing ... 451,' which was published in paperback by Ballantine. Here's an IBM Electric "Coin Operated" Model B Executive, circa 1954.

When I was in the 7th grade, I took a typing class. Yes, typing. Not “keyboarding,” or a “computer” class, but typing. While I had typed before, my parents thought it was a good idea for me to ...

That usually refers to a radius of 50 miles (80 kilometers). Also Read: When Ratan Tata Used IBM Office's Typewriter To Write His First Resume IBM's strict warning has drawn mixed reactions from ...