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The Corona 3 case, by volume
The Corona 3 is an amazingly long lived product. Not just the lifetime of the machines themselves, but the period of time it was being produced and sold (the life-of-type). A production run of more...
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How to use Corona
Part of the quest to make the machines complete is to get the user manual with them again. Especially for the little Corona that is nice, as it so clearly has the metal strip to hold the booklet in the...
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Does a ribbon dry up?
When I got the Speedline it was a bit moldy and the ribbon more than a bit moldy. One of the first steps in cleaning the machine was to take that ribbon out (plastic spools) and toss it in the...
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Reviving Victor's Case
A while back I experimented a bit with patching-up the case of the Noiseless. The 'leatherette' covering had come undone in a few spots and it looked worn and grey.The first step was (naturally)...
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Swedish Machine Seen As Prop In A Småland Shop
Småland is very much Sweden, so not all that surprising really that a typewriter used as a prop in a bookstore is a Halda. The machine looked cosmetically fine but disturbingly many keytops were...
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Wide carriage
A six-feet wide carriage (about 183 cm, nearly 2 meters!). I'm imagining that needs a very solid carriage escapement for such a large moving mass (or move very slowly).Will also take up some desk...
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Impressive mechanics (not about a typewriter)
That fact alone makes them both a bit special in my mind.Somehow this large vessel survived and is still in working condition, kept now as a museum ship in Hamburg (yes, it has its own wikipedia entry...
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Has it started?
See the story at this link: Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents. It sounds a bit unbelievable at first, but the fail mode and the likely reason why the machines fail...
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Typewriter art
A clipping I stumbled upon.Made me think I'd seen something like this before; artist Keira Rathbone is making art in a similar fashion today."Alles ist schon mal dagewesen" :-)
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Tab stops on a ruler
When showing off some pictures of my Victor portable, I was asked what those black metal bits were at the back. These were the tab stops.That triggered an immediate 'wow' that the tabs stops as are...
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Alarm (iconic)
This actually is an icon, for a Microsoft Office notification tool that gives you an alert (alarm?) that there is some upcoming event. The iconic image is an alarmclock, probably clearly recognizable...
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Video sightings
A music video got pointed out to me today by Dutch artist Caro Emerald of her song Liquid Lunch. Hm, yes. It features a typewriter too.Quite a clever video and an enjoyable song. Actually it...
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This is off-topic
But what is definitely a topic in the Typosphere is giving puzzling glimpse images of new machines. Can the make and type be determined from seeing a detail part of the item?Another purchase was made...
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New acquisition, analog machine
It is a black leatherette (rexine) case, but not a typewriter. It is analog equipment, arguably more analog than a typewriter even.Here some quick pictures of the new purchase:When taking off the...
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Fixing the governor
As a gramophone owner you were expected to regularly take the thing apart and oil it. Or maybe expected to take it up to your gramophone shop and have it serviced. The instruction leaflet that came...
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Typewriters are tiny
Typewriters are tiny. Really very modest toys to tinker with.And in these wired times also the fête has its own webpage: www.flaeijel.nl. Has some pictures (check out the set 'optocht', the top-left set).
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Supplies still available
The tins arrived by mail. The padded envelope with a confusingly colorful assortment of stamps; some are 1990-ies, but the red stamps are Queen Juliana stamps from the seventies at the latest. Were the...
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