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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: y11971alex on Sat, 01 October 2016, 16:25:19

Title: Selectric profile
Post by: y11971alex on Sat, 01 October 2016, 16:25:19

What's the profile of the IBM Selectric called?  :D

Title: Re: Selectric profile
Post by: SpecTP on Wed, 05 October 2016, 15:35:41

I believe they are 'SA' profile

Title: Re: Selectric profile
Post by: zslane on Wed, 05 October 2016, 16:15:00

I don't know what IBM called the family of spherical keycaps they used on their Selectric models over the years, but it probably wasn't "SA". If it was, that would be an amazing coincidence.

We need a hardcore IBM historian to find the answer to this question.