In a message dated 9/7/2005 12:23:15 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
needed a special Selectric ball and key tops to program in APL, or read the code. Selectrics were fun to watch when typing fast. The ball would spin and tilt just like those gut-spewing rides at traveling carnivals. >> I don't remember the metallurgy. Seems like antimony and a few others. It had good print, but the ball itself was brittle and fragile. If dropped would break. After long use the flip down cap would spring open in the middle of a line and shoot the ball out or down into the platen well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
