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								Fifty years ago this month, an electric typewriter called the Selectric was introduced by IBM. 
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								Fifty years ago this month, an electric typewriter called the Selectric was introduced by IBM. 
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								During his TV heyday, Cannell became familiar to viewers from the ID that followed each of his shows: He was seen in his office typing on his Selectric before blithely ripping a sheet of paper from the typewriter carriage, whereupon it morphed into the C-shaped logo of Cannell Entertainment Inc. Stephen J. Cannell Dies At 69 AP 2010 
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								Therefore we have on hand an IBM Selectric for addressing envelopes and writing notes without the pother of computer printers. Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011 
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								We got rid of our Selectric typewriters about four years ago and we said, 'Look, we're out preaching the office of the future; we're living in the office of the past.' Snapshot of Steve Jobs Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011 
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								During his TV heyday, Cannell became familiar to viewers from the ID that followed each of his shows: He was seen in his office typing on his Selectric before blithely ripping a sheet of paper from the typewriter carriage, whereupon it morphed into the C-shaped logo of Cannell Entertainment Inc. Stephen J. Cannell Dies At 69 AP 2010 
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								Therefore we have on hand an IBM Selectric for addressing envelopes and writing notes without the pother of computer printers. Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011 
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								Therefore we have on hand an IBM Selectric for addressing envelopes and writing notes without the pother of computer printers. Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011 
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								Therefore we have on hand an IBM Selectric for addressing envelopes and writing notes without the pother of computer printers. Red Room: Fran Moreland Johns: Your Stuff as 'Art' Red Room 2011 
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								I soon graduated to my mom's IBM Selectric typewriter, and when I was at Lane Tech High School, I used the Linotype hot-lead-based mega-machines, and have the burn scars to prove it. Tracy Baim: Niche Media Survival in the Age of New Media Tracy Baim 2012 
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