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    Newsletter Issue #908: Assuming that Apple Can’t Innovate

    April 24th, 2017

    Do you remember the IBM Selectric? It represented the pinnacle of traditional typewriter technology before companies tried to turn them into rudimentary word processing machines. The Selectric made it easy to change typefaces by putting the letters on tiny switchable font elements or balls. My recollection of the Selectric is that they were smooth, reasonably […]