The Wire. IBM Selectric. My Dad had one at home I could use for my homework now and then.

@hawaiiboy I don’t remember who I was discussing the Selectric key logging with, but it was kind of crazy.

@odd Thanks for sharing, the cold war was a hot bed for crazy tech.

@hawaiiboy I had a Selectric II. Loved it! I sold it when we downsized and I still miss it sometimes.

@hawaiiboy That was the M1 Abrams of the typewriter world.

@Cheri @pimoore @hawaiiboy @odd I had one in the mid 80s. I can’t honestly say it was one of my favourite typewriters. I don’t remember who made the one I replaced it with but it looked very space-age and could do bold text (which I thought was an abomination at first). After that, I embraced computers enthusiastically.

@hawaiiboy I learned to touch type in high school on an IBM Selectric. I also remember there were models that had a ball for all the letters rather than individual arms for each one such as non-electric models.

@artkavanagh @cheri @hawaiiboy @odd This brings back memories of my electronic Smith-Corona typewriter I had which had a screen on it where you could type out the line first, and backspace when necessary to make corrections. It would only start physically typing the line when you pressed return. You could also switch it to imprint as you type, in which case you could use the whiteout ribbon to make corrections. Same as you, the transition to computers wasn’t far behind.