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The Typer and the Pomera: new 21st-century typewriters?
The Typewriter Revolution includes chapters on intersections between typewriters and the digital world, and on the future of typewriting. In this context I discuss things such as typewriter-simulation...
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Is the typewriter still innovative in the year 2018?
Thanks to readers for sending me their clever and interesting responses to the contest question. Here they are, in the order I received them.#1:Larry Pressnell#2:Is the Typewriter Still Innovative in...
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Poeming at New Riff
(This is the Dylan film. There's no smoking, only a cup of coffee, and no crowd, just Joan Baez singing. So much for my powers of memory.)Here are New Riff's fermentation vats. You can actually see big...
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A further degeneration in the realm of fake typewriters
Chinese-made fake typewriters have been turning up for a few years now. They're intended as decorative items, probably for places like restaurants or clubs where they can contribute to a phony...
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Remington 24: Darth Vader's other typewriter
Optima M10 (more)Remington 24DV's helmetThis Model 24 from 1967 ...... is essentially the same machine as this Model 17 from 1939 (more):Let's remove the shell and see:It's considerably more compact...
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A successful safari
It's time to play that old game: Which One Did He Buy? I think the answer will be obvious, but maybe not. (There are multiple photos of one typewriter and its case, but that doesn't necessarily mean it...
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This is The One
Mr. E knows my mind. He was the only one to guess which typewriter I selected yesterday.An early L.C. Smith with an intact paper table decal for $45 is a good deal. What you can't see in the photo is...
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Guest post: Continental Silenta
Thanks to Klaus Mielke for this glimpse of a typewriter that is interesting both technically and politically.
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The Achilles' heel of a Brother electric typewriter
You may know my theory that every typewriter model, no matter how sophisticated and wonderful, has an Achilles' heel.This is certainly true of the Brother Electric 3000, a rather obscure little machine...
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Revolution in the mailbox: electricity and oppression
Armando Warner of Mexico mailed me this insightful reflection on electricity and oppression.
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Panic not to this docile juice
Ian Brumfield alerted his followers on Facebook to this bit of artificial intelligence. The RPC-4000, a computer system incorporating a Royal electric typewriter, was programmed to write poetry and...
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Typing myself a letter ... indirectly
When I opened the mailbox yesterday, I was excited to see an airmail envelope. Could this be a letter from one of my typospherian correspondents in Mexico, Germany, or many other countries?But no—on...
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Book review: Border Districts, by Gerald Murnane
(Read about typewriters at the library)Robert Messenger on Murnane: post 1, post 2Here's a fascinating New York Times interview with Murnane. I read it after reading the novel and writing this post. I...
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How to start a typewriter repair business
On The Classic Typewriter Page:• Typewriter repair shops• Basic typewriter restoration • Owner's and service manualsThe Typewriter RevolutionProject OOPRAPUrban Legend Typewriters web page and Facebook...
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Der Schreibmaschinen-Protest
Here's a lightly edited version of the Typewriter Insurgency Manifesto in German, from Oliver Steffens.Here's my original.Oliver prefers "protest" to "insurgency,""solidarity" to "coherence," and...
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Mystery typewriters (Part 1)
For over 20 years, I've been saving photos of interesting typewriters that I see online. By now I have over 550 folders devoted to different makes, containing nearly 7000 photos. This collection is...
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Mystery typewriters (Part 2)
In response to my previous post, Flavio Mantelli says that the aluminum frame is part of a Nickerson:You can read more about the wonderful Nickerson from Robert Messenger.And schrijfmachine said that...
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