3 Responses to “Type Thing”

1. miles says:

   May 30, 2005 at 11:13 pm

   Isn’t it a golfball? My mother used to work on this big IBM typesetter thing, an early word processor (no screen, an automated typewriter I guess) where you typed in a bunch of formatting characters and then the machine spat out your final copy. It used these for different fonts and things. The damned thing sounded like a machine gun when it did its thing.

   beautiful study.
2. Walker says:

   May 31, 2005 at 5:32 pm

   Could be… I’m pretty sure it was an IBM product.
3. Marty says:

   August 2, 2005 at 6:17 am

   Yep, it’s the golfball from an IBM Selectric typewriter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter). When I was a teenager (in the late ’70s), I was hoping to pick up a second-hand one of these to turn into a printer for one of the computers I used to make. It never did happen, though