Good grief I am ancient. To me IBM = Selectric. Waiting for the first whippersnapper to ask what Selectric means.......
Isn't that like a electric printing press? :~)
What a youngster --
IBM = It's Better Manually
Is that what you do with your new magic set?
Just kidding. I'm gaining on 40 faster'n a dropping house price in California.
“Waiting for the first whippersnapper to ask what Selectric means......”
Why of course it means the 1971 typewriter with Times New Roman 11 pitch proportional kerned font! It did superscripts, too, rather nice!
It’s a typewriter that couldn’t keep up with my mother.
She typed 186 words a minute on a manual.
When she worked as financial sec. @ Lytton S&L they had to buy her another typewriter because the selectrics would jam up.
I know what a Selectric is. That is the typewriter that Lt. Col. Killian used in 1972-3 to type the memos that described how George W. Bush was not fulfilling his National Guard duties and was essentially AWOL at that time. These memos were heroically made public by Dan Rather and his able assistant - Mary Mapes on the eve of the 2004 election.
Of course every local National Guard unit located in the middle of Podunk, TX had a $4,000 (over $20,000 in today's dollars) typewriter on base at that time.
I loved my Selectric! I had the one that had interchangeable fonts, so I was always asked to type up special projects and awards.
I was one valuable ‘Admin Babe’ back then, LOL!