What's a "computer console" selectric called?

Sat Oct 10 12:46:40 CDT 2009

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:23:05 -0700, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
> bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
>> I don't think there was a way to get *one* with out
>> buying a IBM COMPUTER.
>>
> 
> I/O Selectrics were an IBM OEM product. DEC used them in a RAND
> contract to build JOSS terminals, SDS and CDC used them for console
> printers, for example.
> 
> What you couldn't get were IBM Executive
> typewriters with computer interfaces, like on the 1620.
  Could they use the same typeballs?