IBM Selectric Typewriters, 1960s
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| (typewriter clacking) | 0:02 | |
| Narrator | This is the best thing | 0:06 |
| that's happened to typing since electricity. | 0:07 | |
| The IBM Selectric typewriter. | 0:10 | |
| Instead of type bars, | 0:12 | |
| there's an ingenious printing element | 0:14 | |
| that dances across the paper at incredible speed. | 0:19 | |
| Faster even than the eye can see. | 0:22 | |
| Now watch in slow motion as it turns, | 0:25 | |
| tilts and prints. | 0:28 | |
| This tiny printing element is also interchangeable. | 0:31 | |
| Simply remove one type style, | 0:36 | |
| choose another from several distinctive typefaces, | 0:38 | |
| and click it into place. | 0:43 | |
| Takes only five seconds, | 0:47 | |
| and you're ready to start typing again. | 0:49 | |
| Someday all typewriters will work like the IBM Selectric, | 0:51 | |
| but why wait? | 0:55 | |
| (typewriter clacking) | 0:57 |
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