Here's a clip from the television show The Invaders, aired 26 Mar 1968.  It shows a bit of the IBM Selectric Programmer in action.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 5:47 PM E. <hanyou@xsmail.com> wrote:

Hey all,

I’ll hold onto those machines… have already had a few inquiries.  I’ll go through them a bit later — have something going on tonight, so thank you much for the interest!

I found a photo of that Selectric programmer.  It’s to the right of the typewriter in this article (photo also attached):

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/12/the-first-true-word-processor-was-invented-by-ibm/

The bad thing is that it’s pretty buried in the dumpster and is probably a bit banged up by now.  I think the other end of the programming cable interface is somewhere in the dumpster too.  I’m guessing it’s near the weight of a 19.


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