When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Mark Dean, one of the IBM engineers who designed the first IBM PC, says the venerable device is ...

Imagine all of the waiting rooms and typing classes it's seen in its half-century on earth. IBM this week is celebrating the 50th birthday of its best-selling Selectric line of office typewriters.

A few other characteristics came to mind that also help set it apart: I don't know if it was the first, or not, but something that might not be immediately obvious to some is that the Selectric had ...

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The IBM Selectric typewriter, arguably Lexington's most famous product, turns 50 on Sunday. From what is now Lexmark International's headquarters along New Circle Road, thousands of IBM employees ...

A little after 9 a.m. Tuesday, a customer came into Bill Mark’s business with a rough sketch of a part she needed for an IBM typewriter.Mark looked at the drawing for about 5 seconds — maybe — then ...

Mark Dean, CTO for IBM Middle East and Africa, is stirring up the web with a blog post entitled, “IBM Leads the Way in Post-PC Era.” Now, if you read through this article, you'll detect two things: 1) ...

Video caption, WATCH: IBM, the firm that was once all about hardware, now makes its living from more intangible technology Say IBM - and you probably still think of computers. But today, the firm that ...

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After CBS News trumpeted newly discovered documents Wednesday that referred to a 1973 effort to "sugar coat" President Bush's service record in the Texas Air National Guard, the network almost ...