A friend of typography expert Jennifer Kennard recently came across this gem from a bygone era. It’s a typewriter ball for an IBM Selectric. They were not normally packaged and sold as globes, so this is a rarity. It’s a clever marketing gimmick if a company is trying to market itself as essential for international commerce.
-via Nerdcore
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It seemed to me like an odd way to do it, since I think most of us would assume number of locations is of which they are referring.