Old School Change the Font

I ran across and old typeball for an IBM Selectric Typewriter a couple of weeks ago. These typewriters were manufactured from 1961 through 1984. They used a printhead element called a typeball to print with. They were nick named golf balls. These golf ball heads were used to set the font for whatever you were typing. They came in at least a dozen different fonts including Hebrew. If you wanted to change fonts you had to put on a different typeball. A big pain if you needed to change fonts in the middle of a sentence. Later models of the Selectric had some memory storage and were the forerunners of modern word processing using computers. God's light and love to all, chris This image was created using a Canon 7D MkII and a 100mm macro lens. Lighting was provided by four LED light panels. the typeball was placed upon a black sweep. The camera settings used were, AV mode, ISO 800, F13.0 at 1/100th of a sec. The camera was supported with a Manfrotto 190 XPRB tripod with a Bogen 3055 Heavy duty ballhead.#teamcanon

Time Travel in My Mind

Today I watched an old episode of "Murder She Wrote". In the introduction it shows the main character Jessica Fletcher typing on an old manual typewriter. It reminded me of when I used to type my papers in high school and the first few years in college on an old manual typewriter. Today I dragged it out of the garage and photographed it. I was amazed to find that it still works! God's love and blessings to all, chris