I had seen this woman before. Many times now. I was certain of it. But who was she? In a film from 1947, she’s operating an electric Chinese typewriter, the first of its kind, manufactured by IBM.

The office-machine competition will become even hotter when IBM thisweek introduces a typewriter with a memory tape. Dubbed the “Magnetic Tape Selectric,” it can store up typed words and figures, then ...

IBM sold 13 million Selectric typewriters which also served as a precursor to early computer terminals It has been retired for 25 years but IBM will celebrate the 50 th anniversary of the introduction ...