The Bendix Corporation’s Bendix G-15 was introduced in 1956 as an affordable system for industrial and scientific markets. As with any computer system, a range of peripheral devices for input and ...
Luckily, engineer and YouTuber, Bill Hammack, describes how the Selectric’s element works in an unrelated video (below). Hammack explains that the element has a series of typeface letters—both upper ...
MOONACHIE, N.J. (WCBS 880) -- Meet, Max. He's a millennial. He's also my son. He's bright, worldly and can do pretty much anything he wants on a computer. But I put him in front of a typewriter. "I ...
For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter – or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric – are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops ...
Most days Tom Furrier is hunched over his workbench: clicking, clacking, and fixing. Furrier owns Cambridge Typewriter Company. It's where people bring their typewriters to be repaired — ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the anthropological intersections of tech, politics & culture. And this memory came rushing back to me the other day while ...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — At the age of 25, Greg Fudacz of Wethersfield went to a tag sale and bought his very first vintage ROYAL typewriter for $5 dollars. That was 14 years ago. Now, he has about ...
With all of the whiz-bang rockets and brain implants we have these days, it’s easy to forget about genius inventions from simpler times. Thankfully, in a video posted to its YouTube channel, the ...