An IBM Selectric, a mother’s legacy, and a prop plane: Philly Typewriter takes on its latest adventure

Staff were stunned when Bill Rhoda strolled into the Northeast Philadelphia Airport one bitterly cold Saturday in December ...
PHILADELPHIA.Today

Philly Typewriter Restores IBM Selectric Flown 600 Miles By Pilot to Save Mother’s Heirloom

A pilot flew nearly 600 miles to Philly Typewriter, trusting the South Philly shop to restore his mother's IBM Selectric III ...
Reading Eagle

Business is booming at the few remaining typewriter repair shops in the country

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter – or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric – are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops ...
The Roanoke Times

Selectric typewriter deserves effort to keep it alive

Q: I have an IBM Selectric 3 typewriter. I’m looking for somebody that can service it. The main thing is that certain keys stick. I use a computer for most things, but there are times when I want to ...
Hackaday

Clear Resin Casting Replicates Old Acrylic For Selectric Repair

IBM Selectric typewriters have a lot of unique parts that can be tricky to source, but one we didn’t think of was the clear acrylic(?) dust covers, that are apparently very hard to find in ...
TribLIVE.com

Clickety clack, let’s look back: Typewriters return

For most of us, the clickety clack of a manual typewriter — or the gentler tapping of the IBM Selectric — are but memories, if we’ve heard them at all. But at the few remaining typewriter repair shops ...