1982 IBM Correcting Selectric II

Title says it all. Experimenting with backtracking audio so the silent cuts for the lens focusing don’t break up the audio flow. Recording room ambience with my reel to reel going in the background. Also, I misplaced my little front red pointer thingy and only found it AFTER I finished recording....

[@phoenixtypewriter2136]

2400+ parts all working in split second harmony is a mechanical wonder

[@beverlygannon4141]

Yes I agree. Great Machine all the girls in the office wanted one

[@melquizedec]

Noisy AF but lovely at the same time Just like my kids!

[@thethriftyfawn]

Wow... just wow... I've seen these on youtube, but have never HEARD one. Even that humming sound it makes when powered on has a certain intimidation factor to it!

[@loveisall5520]

I started typing on Selectric I's in high school, was the only guy in the class, and topped 120wpm on a 15min test. I never did like the revised keyboard on the S-III and skipped from owning an S-II correcting to the Electronic 50 when it came out; I was still doing theses, research papers and dissertations just for the fun of it. Replaced that with the Wheelwriter 5 and put over 100K pages on it without a single breakdown. At one time I owned forty of those IBM 'elements'. I see yours here lost the little plastic top; the early Selectric 'balls' with the squeeze clamp were more durable than the later ones with the plastic levers. I still own one of those rare Personal Selectrics, the short-carriage S-II with the Tech III ribbon...

[@markplease]

Dad was a typewriter repair man. I literally tossed hundreds of these into a dumpster over the years when I was a boy in the 80’s.

[@grmtr1632]

This sound hearing so happy

[@timjuliushuber6970]

I didn't even watch five seconds and i'm very, very excited to get one for myself. Great vid ans Greetings from Austria

[@generalralph6291]

Now that’s what I call Star Trek.

[@enzoponon]

Imagine answering hundreds of (e)mails with this machine hahahahahahaha i love the noise it makes

[@BokBarber]

There is a process to convert them into a linux terminal so in theory you could do this.

[@hattree]

The ball is referred to as an element.

[@TypewriterChicago]

Indeed it is. The IBM selectric was a single element typewriter, and the element itself was called a golf ball

[@hattree]

@@TypewriterChicago not by the IBM people. They were sold and referred to by repairmen as elements

[@michaelprice4423]

@@hattree Well, Columbo said it looks like a golf ball... Just sayin'

[@beverlygannon4141]

@@michaelprice4423 it was the gold ball type writer 👌

[@Chernobypi67]

Wonderfull machine.🙂

[@AtelierDBurgoyne]

Good demo! Thanks!!!

[@yueibm]

I just picked one up! Compared to my Selectric I, the keys feel lighter. Perhaps my Selectric I needs to be lubricated? Now typing on my MX Blue key switches, it feels like the travel is way too shallow on this modern mechanical computer keyboard.

[@vickygunawan8775]

Nice video, thank you

[@carimerolee]

awesome!

[@Rockybaikalov]

Faster than AK47

[@muhammadyasird.a.928]

It's like hearing star trek movie

[@DenizY-062]

my brain....

[@Arxiuz2]

ITS SO DAMN LOUD BUT I AM WILLING TO OWN ONE IF I CAN FIND IT!!! HELLO!!

[@TypewriterChicago]

HELLO! THEY ARE INDEED LOUD! GOOD LUCK FINDING ONE! IF YOU EVER NEED ANY WORK DONE I'M ALWAYS AROUND TO HELP

[@Get7Out7ofthe7Boat]

@@TypewriterChicago What UP !!!

[@melquizedec]

@@TypewriterChicago CLANK CLANK CLANK!!

[@BokBarber]

Mine isn't quite this loud. I think this might've been peaking the microphone.

[@moonna8088]

OK, now show us how you do spellcheck.

[@beverlygannon4141]

It was the dog b*llocks!!! Ahead of it's time will good

[@Joe-mu8wd]

sounds like gunshots

[@viewererdos]

02:49 КАК?! 😯

[@Bramon83]

2:56 When it's five minutes until class and you've been lazy AF.

[@willowigabb]

Why does it sound like a machinegun lol

[@Bramon83]

Because it's the office street sweeper.

[@willowigabb]

@@Bramon83 lol

[@yassarafaaf4307]

Stark Industries in 60s can make better than this

[@geirjohannessen8132]

cruel. sunds like machine gun.terrible.

[@TypewriterChicago]

Aw :( you dont like the sound of a typewriter?

[@beverlygannon4141]

@@TypewriterChicago I loved it,. It was so fast 👌♥️