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Type Thing

Type Thing


Any idea what this thing is actually called?

This entry was posted Sunday, May 29th, 2005 at 9:29 am and is filed under Calumet 4x5. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Type Thing”

  1. miles Says:
    May 30th, 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 31st, 2005 at 5:32 pm

    Could be… I’m pretty sure it was an IBM product.

  3. Marty Says:
    August 2nd, 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 :-(

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