To: wildbill
"Instead of font letters at the end of arms that slammed up onto the ribbon and paper at the touch of a key, the Selectric had a ball with all the letters around on its surface. Whenever you touched a key, the ball spun around and hit the ribbon and paper."Yeah...they were the envy of everyone who did much typing back in the day.
To: intolerancewillNOTbetolerated
Yeah...they were the envy of everyone who did much typing back in the day. I'd love to have one today! You could fly on those things.
118 posted on
09/08/2004 10:19:04 PM PDT by
Howlin
(I'm mad as Zell)
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