Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The IBM Selectric, which was built in Lexington from 1961-1986. (Herald-Leader) Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th ...

If you learned to type anytime in the mid-part of the 20th century, you probably either had or wanted an IBM Selectric. These were workhorses and changed typing by moving from typebars to a ...

The new models are reportedly 0.2 mm shorter to address this and adjust the letter rotation, since it was “90 degrees off.” Because of this, we can’t verify how successful these models would be in ...

Metal plating doesn't have much strength. If a plastic ball would be flattened, as I expect, a plated plastic ball would collapse just about as fast. Plus, I think you can only plate things that ...