Comments on: Type Thing http://www.beyondmonochrome.com/blog/2005/05/29/type-thing/ Photos and Thoughts Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:32:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Marty http://www.beyondmonochrome.com/blog/2005/05/29/type-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Marty Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:17:52 +0000 http://www.beyondmonochrome.com/blog/?p=130#comment-292 Yep, it's the golfball from an IBM Selectric typewriter (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter)." rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter).</a> 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 :-( 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 :-(

]]> By: Walker http://www.beyondmonochrome.com/blog/2005/05/29/type-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-293 Walker Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:32:00 +0000 http://www.beyondmonochrome.com/blog/?p=130#comment-293 Could be... I'm pretty sure it was an IBM product. Could be… I’m pretty sure it was an IBM product.

]]> By: miles http://www.beyondmonochrome.com/blog/2005/05/29/type-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-294 miles Tue, 31 May 2005 06:13:14 +0000 http://www.beyondmonochrome.com/blog/?p=130#comment-294 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. 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.

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