Looking For a Typewriter

Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash I've started a quest for the “perfect” typewriter. I don't know what that means: I don't know what perfect is in the case of typewriters. When I find it, I will know it. There will be mistakes made along the way, but so be it. There is something that has fascinated me already, however, in my search for a typewriter. Originally I was thinking that an IBM Selectric I was the most likely candidate for my perfect typewriter. Why? Mainly because I've used one in the past. And for some reason I think we had one at home. My father had an inherent trust of IBM. I recall him parroting the saying, “Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.” And, of course the other reason: they were produced during my birth year. Yeah, despite the fact that I still don't understand Birth Year Collecting, it was something that I was doing. But there was an issue when I started thinking about it… How would I know if a specific typewriter was produced during my birth year? The IBM…