I asked my mom if she still had her Selectric, and she said she thought she did, she didn't remember selling it, but we've been through a couple moves, so it might have been lost. We spent a little while going through boxes and didn't find the Selectric, but found our old Smith Corona Mark XXV. I used that typewriter all during my high school days in the late 80's. It's pretty awesome for a typewriter, it's sort of the last of the typewriters, and was a bastardization of a typewriter and computer. You use a little lcd panel to type first, you can type whole reports and store it in memory, then type it out with the typewriter automatically. You can also interface it with a computer and use it as a printer which was a great selling point in the day when only dot matrix printers were common.
I set it up and turned it on, and it still after being in a box for like 20 years worked perfectly and I typed out, "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" a couple times. Was a pretty bad keyboard unfortunately, pretty squishy keys, but brought back a lot of memories. Still great like someone posted for filling out forms though. lol
