Ray, a former IBM technician who cut his teeth on these machines in the ’70s, owns Business Machines Center in Woodland Hills, where old electric typewriters go for a second chance.
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IBM Selectric Service Training (1978, Restored)<br /> by [[Thickboy]] on YouTube<br /> accessed on 2026-07-31T10:13:34
I just finished a project and I think a lot of you would like it. I found the old Selectric training videos but the narration is very outdated, slow paced and the slides were all burned red and miscolored.
With the help of AI I restored the photos and created a new narrator. The script has been modernized to sound more palatable to our ear. "Stop the reel" updated to "pause the video", for example and is now narrated at a natural pace in a woman's voice.
These courses, for me at least, are way easier to sit through and absorb. There maybe be some coloration errors or glitches in some photos, but for the most part they came out pretty good. Take a look and let me know what you think.
I'm also putting together some review videos with quiz questions for each section that I will release soon.
IBM Selectric Service Training (1978, Restored)<br /> via u/Mike3521 at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1vbcsob/just_finished_restoring_the_old_selectric/
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1946 Electromatic Model 01 - IBM's First Typewriter <br /> by [[Tech Tangents]]
Not the best cleaning and repair advice here for a typewriter, but some interesting tidbits of IBM history.
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A Typewriter Tool Kit , IBM Repair Box , Service Equipment<br /> by [[Duane Jensen]] of [[Phoenix Typewriter]] <br /> accessed on 2026-02-24T00:16:44
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Buying a Bad Typewriter: Project IBM (part 1) - YouTube<br /> by Sarah Everett at [[Just My Typewriter]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-28T00:11:36
A small sampling of what you're in for with respect to IBM typewriter repair.
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Jim Riegert, now in his 70s, remembers what it used to be like. "Back then, typewriters were pretty big. Typewriters and adding machines," he says, referring to desktop calculators. "It got really difficult in the typewriter business about 25 years ago," he says. "The internet was coming on and killing us, too." He runs Typewriters.com and, despite a decline in sales in recent decades, he still shifts four or five electric IBM typewriters every week.
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Bryan Kravitz, who specialized in IBM Selectric repairs. Rhoda wanted to learn, too. Kravitz was happy to teach him."I just put my head down, and learned how to do it," Rhoda said, and he partnered with Kravitz to open Philly Typewriter in 2017.
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