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From: hanc...
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 19:42

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On Friday, March 16, 2018 at 10:36:23 PM UTC-4, Charles Richmond wrote:

> But although the IBM selectrics allowed type-ahead, I believe it all was 
> done electro-mechanically and *not* with memory chips.  And the IBM 
> selectric *is* a typewriter.

Yes, the basic IBM Selectric was just a typewriter.  No electronics.

IBM also continued to make conventional typebar typewriters for
many years in addition to the Selectrics.

In the 1980s, some IBM typewriters got electronics, as did many
other brands of typewriters.  These could do some basic functions.

Here is an ad for one from 1982:
https://books.google.com/books?id=s5v1cGp1Fi0C&lpg=PA909&dq=aba%20electronic%20typewriter&pg=PA909#v=onepage&q&f=false

I picked up a nice SCM unit at a yard sale for $1.  It was in good
shape and included the manual.  Unfortunately, it did not include
the ribbon.  The ribbon cartridge for that particular machine was
obsolete and rather expensive to buy.  I ended up tossing the machine.

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