The IBM Selectric changed typewriters as we knew ... ribbon instead of the arguably better carbon film ribbon. The Selectric II could even use a special tape to lift the carbon ribbon off the ...

If there’s only lesson to be learned from [alnwlsn]’s conversion of an IBM Selectric typewriter ... For being a dumpster find, the Selectric II was actually in pretty decent shape.

Introduced in 1961 by IBM, the Selectric was the first typewriter to use a golf ball-like type element that moved across the paper, rather than moving the paper carriage past the individual ...