My grandfather worked for IBM before I was born, and there's still a Selectric III typewriter in his office. It's got the same industrial whir from the flywheel

My grandfather worked for IBM before I was born, and there's still a Selectric III typewriter in his office. It's got the same industrial whir from the flywheel that powers the printing head and a similar thud from each impact on the ribbon. I remember as a young child pounding on the keys to see how fast I could make it go, and later on, writing short stories just to hear the "thunk thunk thunk" (after all, I could've written them on the PC over on the desk, but the typewriter was a novelty). This was in the 90s, and I recognize that you're probably talking about a couple of decades earlier. I think that the only cardpunch I've touched is the one next to the articles's 1401, at the Computer History Museum, in fact.