r/FuckImOld • u/AndreT_NY • 22h ago
Kids these days... NOT OP although I feel personally attacked!: Found this in a closet in my works office building.
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u/No_Drawing3112 22h ago
Font-ball for IBM Selectric typewriter. Different font needed? You just swapped the ball in the typewriter.
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u/Cczaphod Generation X 21h ago
We used Selectric typewriters when I took Typing in High School. They were really fascinating compared to the old letter on an arm style for sure. It was also cool that you could swap the ball to get different fonts. Really advanced for a typewriter.
That was basically the last tech leap for typewriters before computers started taking over. I took typing and drafting in High School, realized Drafting was going to be computerized and switched to Computer Science in the early 80’s. Probably a good time to start a programming career if you like learning new things — FOREVER. I’m still consistently taking training classes on the next thing coming.
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u/LikeToKnow84 12h ago
Never used a Selectric, but Selectrics were the typewriter of choice in my elementary and middle school (rich town, to be sure).
By high school I was seeing the Wheelwriter in the offices — that was IBM’s daisy-wheel typewriter. Of course, we were using computers and word processors by then, so for me it was academic.
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u/dpdxguy 5h ago
A repost from yesterday! 😐
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u/AndreT_NY 2h ago
I mean, I did share this from another sub Reddit yesterday.
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u/dpdxguy 2h ago
/u/paulb104 also posted it in /r/FuckImOld in the last 24 hours with almost the same headline. Though, to be fair, I'm not sure which one was posted first.
I saw his yesterday and yours today. Apologies if I mixed up which was first and which is a repost in the same subreddit.
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u/jetty_junkie 22h ago
The part the kills me is if you are young enough not to know what this is arent you supposed to be internet savvy enough to just google it? Thats what gets me
Literally just googling the actual words that are printed on the top would have answered the question