Desire Vintage: a site devoted to beautiful and archetypal objects of our culture

The IBM Selectric, introduced in 1961 was known as the ‘golfball’ typewriter because of it’s pivoting type element that could be changed so as to display different fonts in the same document. The ball is a beautiful fetish object.

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IBM SELECTRIC II TYPEWRITER 'GOLF' BALL
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