Testing 123
New to me, this Blogger. So some random jottings first, to see if this works. And of course to figure out a bit how it works too.
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Trendy?
Perhaps typewriters are now/becoming trendy again. Just noticed that the user manual of a Fiat 500 (a trendy car, it's selling point is mainly it's design I think) is entirely typed.Well, they used a...
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Remington Victor T - A mechanical machine (very)
The feed rollers after ~75 years had become very hard and D-shaped instead of round. This made paper feed a very random affair. Even though the machine comes with a "World Service", it's out of...
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The first Royal portables were afaik the boxy design, the 'Model P' and so forth. Replaced mid 30-ies by the rounded squarish design.When did Royal make a small portable typewriter in a streamline...
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Just arrived, shipment
Latest (and last, honest) shipment arrived today.Bought via the major local online auction site. Packed with only a layer of cardboard (and tape, tape is good :) around a single layer bubblewrap wrap....
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Article on Rundstatler musical notes writer
Browsing an older issue of 'Het Leven' ('Life') magazine of 1937, the following article caught my eye "A relief for speedy composers.":The caption (in Dutch) reads:"The laborious writing down of...
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Oops - learnt something new about bakelite ^D^D^D lacquer.
And with the new ribbon; it types again! (Skips though. A lot.)The old ribbon was completely out-of-ink. I won't say 'dry' or 'empty', because I do suspect the ribbon to be responsible for some of that...
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New (in 1930) electric typewriter prints whole phrases
When browsing through an old issue of Popular Mechanics (the March 1930 issue to be exact, amazing what is on the internet), the following short article drew my attention.The text was intriguing and...
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Large, heavy, green and gone
Large it was. The machine itself, a solid office desktop machine, has already quite a footprint; add to that a carriage with a 50 cm wide platen. This could take an A3 - sideways. This really made it...
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Free typing course
Well that is nice! The kind Remington company throws in lots of FREE stuff with their Noiseless Portable typewriter. (The actual price you will pay for the Noiseless is worryingly absent from this...
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New Speedline Corona
Now I did see this sensational new portable typewriter in many pictures online. Now still to be among the first to own one is unlikely; the ad is from '38 announcing the new '39 model. But even if not...
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The digital world or how to load a stack of sheets evenly...
There may not be the actual need for these little tricks anymore. For getting multiple copies it is nowadays more important to locate the print-dialog.From Popular Mechanics, November 1936.Such tricks...
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N38954 on it's feet again
Tried that - no difference. Maybe this is just how it was meant to be (or the mechanism has a bit more internal resistance that it had when new). It is actually more the typebar mechanism, vibrator-bar...
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Practice
Post scriptum: yesterday used my Remington Victor T to type a letter (and two drafts, the backspace did not erase...). I was really struck again by how loud that machine is. Maybe this is partly...
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Copies letter without carbon paper
New on the market in 1931. Ingenious. Sounds fiddly though, especially when making more than one copy. Must be very specific to a particular model of machine to be able to use the paper guide to hold...
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Corona 3 'automatic'
A folding Corona. These are indeed relatively common machines, also locally here. They pop up regularly on the local auction site (though sometimes with eye-popping pricetags). Several months ago I got...
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Hardboiled detective fiction
The detective stories by Raymond Chandler featuring his Philip Marlowe character methinks qualify as being part of the 'hardboiled' detective fiction genre.I learn that Mr Chandler wrote these stories...
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Hardly a typewriter at all...
It does write 'type', but without most of the parts that normally make up a typewriter.From 1935, haven't been able to spot the patent of this one yet. Rather do suspect the inventor would have tried...
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