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Old 02-26-2016, 07:03 PM   #11
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The IBM Selectric II -- the absolute pinnacle in electric typewriters - with that little font ball ....
[and probably the heaviest of electric typewriters]

I loved that device ...
That was what was the basis of the APL terminal I used in high school; the IBM 2741. What a device!

Of course a few years later, I had a summer job with IP Sharp in Montreal and remember using a daisy-wheel based terminal; the fun of printing graphics on that device!
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