Hackaday (unofficial) July 25, 2023 12:00pm Selectric Typewriter Goes from Trash Can to Linux Terminal #retrocomputing #ibm #interposer #linux #rs232 #selectric #solenoid #teletype #terminal #tty #whiffletree #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Selectric Typewriter Goes From Trash Can To Linux Terminal If there’s only lesson to be learned from [alnwlsn]’s conversion of an IBM Selectric typewriter into a serial terminal for Linux, it’s that we’ve been hanging around the wro…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 11, 2023 12:00pm IBM Selectric Typewriters Finally Get DIY Typeballs #classichacks #raspberrypi #metal #openscad #resin #restoration #selectric #typeball #typewriter #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 IBM Selectric Typewriters Finally Get DIY Typeballs IBM’s Selectric line of typewriters were quite popular in the 1960s, thanks in part to an innovation called the typeball which allowed for easy font changes on a single machine. Unfortunately…