Now here is a blast from the past, but when I entered the word ball into my photo album on the computer this picture arrived.
They are the ball heads (I really do not know the english name for them), that replaced the letter typers on the IBM typewriter. They came in all sorts of type faces and all you had to do was to replace the ball you had in the machine if you wanted another print. I remebered when they were new and now I found these examples in a local computer museum we have. Even these are now non-existent, but I quite liked them. I remember my nice red IBM typewriter in the office with this new development. And now they are also qualified as antiques, although so is the typewriter. We now have computers. I realise now how lucky I was to have seen all these developments that my grandchildren will never know.
RDP Sunday: Ball
Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss 
Oh my gosh, I’ve not seen those for years and years. 😀 😀
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Who would have thought that they would now belong to history. I remember when they were new and revolutionary.
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Oh Pat, I remember them when they were new too. I loved those old IBM selectrics. 😀
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I think I grew up with them 🙂
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They came out as I graduated from high school. I was on some of the training on them in school. I went on to be a secretary for the next 30 some years. 😀
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I was working when they arrived, but gradually computers took over.
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I loved the IBM Selectric at work — I typed my thesis on it!!
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I had a home job for some time typing scientific text for books on diffusion. I was given an IBM Executive to type it and that was not an average typewriter.
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I got to type on that at a law firm where I worked. Very wonderful machine.
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Yes the IBM selectric was a marvelous machine. The keyboard fit my hand perfectly and I could type really fast without error. Those truly were the good old days. SLP …
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They were the predecessor to the computer. In the office they were the best you could have.
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