1980's IBM Correcting Selectric III Typewriter

Making up the grocery list and weekly menu of food with the IBM Selectric III typewriter. Works very well!

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Science & Technology

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• 1980's
• IBM
• Correcting
• Selectric
• III
• Typewriter

[hdyudu]

i alway winder thay type writers are still in

uses today and by the way what with the flash image of some kind of office shredder at the first of the video?

[retrochad]

Yes it is is a Fellowes powershred paper shredder...I made a video about the paper shredder before and it was prior to the typewriter video on the tape. I'll have to upload a separate video of the shredder.

[warsaw28]

Is this Andy Rooney?

[linuxspice]

Nice video! One correction: The "10" and "12" don't refer to point size, but to what was then called "pitch", the number of characters per inch horizontally. 10-pitch ("Pica") meant 10 cpi (7.2 pt/char), and 12-pitch ("Elite") meant 12 cpi (6 pt/char). So a 12-pitch font was actually smaller than a 10-pitch one. On dual-pitch Selectrics, the pitch was controlled by a lever at the back. Both pitches had the same vertical spacing though, 6 lines per inch (12 pt/line) for single spacing. :-)

[ZuzoFriend]

@warsaw28 It's Charles Bukowski.

[MrOldone21]

it look like a good one...

[johnrk556]

This isn't point-it's pitch. Does this guy know anything about typing?

[barf245]

Can you get a hernia if ya pick it up with out help?

[flagday45]

MY BOSS GOT ME THIS MODEL IBM IN 1984 AND I'M STILL USING IT....I TOLD HIM WHEN I RETIRE I AM TAKING IT WITH ME. IT IS TRULY THE BEST TYPEWRITER I'VE USED IN MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF TYPING.....SHOW ME A PUTER THAT STILL WILL WORK MORE THAN 30 YEARS FROM NOW

[gschjetne]

I have a mechanical one which I use from time to time. I've been looking into getting a Selectric as well.

Typewriters are brilliant technology. Never mind the lack of storage, preview and fast change of fonts, a good one will actually produce print quality far exceeding expensive laser printers.

[scubexin]

@chimera15 The Keyboard of IBM typewriter was unique in design. It had different slope for diffrent rows. Also the keys were operated with a click with mechanical controls with precision. After the keystem pressed down to 75% of its total path the key used to respond to print a character getting a solid response to touch typists. It was a real feather touch keyboard...

[scubexin]

This typwriter was electro-mechanical type with speed of 14 characters per second.

There were many models prior to this... single pitch, dual pitch, film ribbon, fabric ribbon. Selectric III was last model prior to intrduction of IBM's Electronic Typwriters E50, E60, E75 and E85 with Memory type.

[silntdoogood]

This is sitting next to the computer I am using to watch this video. We still use it for work.