IBM Selectric Golf Ball in slow motion

"Slow motion of IBM Selectric in operation showing how the golf ball spins around to select the correct letter to hit the page."

From http://boingboing.net/2021/04/17/saturday-slow-mo-the-ibm-selectric.html and http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&boardid=1&threadid=221259.
StukaFoxsays...

"I want to know how many of you geezers ever saw one of these in real life."

I wrote my first professional piece on one of these. And I don't miss the fuckers one bit.

BSRsays...

I've started in printing when I was 14 at a local newspaper in NJ. They still had the old Linotype machines but were phasing
them out. But they were also using newer typesetting equipment which is now obsolete as is this ball.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI2sYvUb4_0

StukaFoxsaid:

"I want to know how many of you geezers ever saw one of these in real life."

I wrote my first professional piece on one of these. And I don't miss the fuckers one bit.

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