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  1. At least it will be easy to find a school song by mhwombat · · Score: 1 · on IBM High School To Churn Out IT Pros
    The IBM Songbook, for instance: http://www.etypewriters.com/ibmsongs.htm
    I'm serious:

    The name of T. J. Watson means a courage none can stem,
    And we feel honored to be here to toast the I. B. M.

  2. I hope by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 1 · on Striving to Keep Teleworkers Happy
    The company sparked new life into an old tradition: IBM Club...

    I hope they bring back the sing alongs from the IBM Song Book.

  3. Re:Adaptation by patio11 · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Movie Burning Kiosks Coming To Retailers
    There weren't plenty of typing machine manifacturers that started making keybaords and mice as well I think.

    Yeah, who ever heard of a rusty old anachronism like that typewriter manufacturer International Business Machines competing in the new economy.

  4. Re:Memories... by zakezuke · · Score: 1 · on Sony Music CD's Contain Mac DRM Software Too

    My mom (almost 70 yrs old) has been using email for about a year or so now. she still uses l and O for 1's and 0's because that's the way she learned to type.

    This is totally not uncommon. From my limited understanding even the eletric typewriters of the 50s didn't have zero or one keys, and even if you went to school in the 60s odds are your typewriter was at least 10 years old. It was NEVER an issue till computers...

    http://www.etypewriters.com/history.htm

  5. Re:The Documents might be forgeries by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 3, Informative · on New Bush Guard Records Released
    IBM had Selectric's, with changeable "ball" elements and propotional fonts as early as 1962.

    A forgery would almost certainly have been done in a courier typeface. The forging of documents, and the forensics of relating typewritten materials to the machine of their origin is a well-known topic. Freepers need a red-herring for this issue. The next claim they will make is that the Memos originate with Hillaty Clinton.

  6. Re:Quite the turnaround for IBM. by TheToon · · Score: 1 · on IBM Adding Almost 19,000 Jobs

    Nope, not the IBM song, this is: Ever onwards

    And that really swings :)

  7. Re:Quite the turnaround for IBM. by Noginbump · · Score: 2, Interesting · on IBM Adding Almost 19,000 Jobs
    There was a time when some people would look down on the idea of working for IBM because they seemed stuffy and out of step with the market


    Nah, they just didn't want to learn the IBM Song.
  8. Re:Multipart Impacts by fm6 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die
    Well, microcomputers appeared in the mid 70s, and by then the most common teleprinter was the Modell 33 Teletype. These were pretty much the standard console for non-IBM computers. (IBM, of course, used telecom versions of their own electric typewriters.) In fact, the Model 33 seems to have been the choice for most of the non-mainframes even before the microprocessor turned computing on its economic head.

    According to this article, the first practical teleprinter was patented in 1910.

  9. Re:huh? by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 1 · on Laptop vs. Small Desktop: Best Bang Per Watt?

    The very first IBM typewriter was electric. As far as I know, IBM has never sold a non-electric typewriter. I even checked at typewritercollector.com and found no mention of a manual IBM.