Computers and smartphones might be where most writing is done these days, but typewriters still have work to do in the US.

This NSA memo from 2012 explains how several IBM Selectric typewriters used in the Moscow and Leningrad offices were successfully bugged with electromechanical devices that could possibly have ...

Decades ago, a call came through from IBM. The tech giant was looking for a new typewriter distributor in the northeast of the US. Marr's father and uncle, in charge at the time, were over the moon.

IBM Electric Typewriters: 1950s Office Work at Teachers College Posted: March 8, 2025 | Last updated: March 8, 2025 The film "Electric Typing Time" features Jane Marshall, a secretary, who trains ...

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.