If there’s only lesson to be learned from [alnwlsn]’s conversion of an IBM Selectric typewriter into a serial terminal for Linux, it’s that we’ve been hanging around the wrong garbage cans.

Introduced in 1961 by IBM, the Selectric was the first typewriter to use a golf ball-like type element that moved across the paper, rather than moving the paper carriage past the individual ...

This NSA memo from 2012 explains how several IBM ... the Selectric’s type element ball has its own signature. The sensing part of the keylogging mechanism was buried in part of the typewriter ...