Monthly Archives: April 2011

Hermes – Nineteen Sixty Four

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My complaint for today: Browser form fields

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Is Blogger broken?

I have been unable to comment on any of the typosphere blogs that use Blogger since sometime last night, yet I see other people posting comments fine. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

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Backwoods Ozarks knuckledraggers toss typewriters!

Apparently they’ve been doing this for 21 years now. Video shows them destroying ugly plastic wedges, but what were they throwing off roofs in the first annual typewriter toss in the 90′s? Also, to give you an idea of how ignorant the media actually is, listen to the last line in the video: “uh, someone [...]

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1966 Olympia SM-9 Postcard

I was over at MTE today to drop off some flyers for the 2nd Phoenix Typewriter Round-Up, and as happens everytime I drop by, I got to chatting with Bill and this time he rummaged through his file cabinet and came up with an old Olympia postcard, which he gave to me – probably because [...]

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Typewriters, the turntables of the 21st Century

A deftly-anti-ocr’d rant by Fossils Without Fear Another rant couched in poetry and biology by Snohomish Writer A Softer World The Boston Typewriter Orchestra La Vie Graphite “A Day of Moments” by Joe Van Cleave

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I guess we should actually be celebrating the death of Godrej?

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Another poster for the 2nd Phoenix Typewriter Round-Up!

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1964 NOMDA Blue Book: IBM Font Styles

It is perhaps fitting that I post the last of my typestyle scans on the day that Tom Furrier writes his celebration of the IBM Selectric. I myself refuse to include electric typewriters in my own corral, but if I were to own one, it would be a Selectric. Actually, it would have to be [...]

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1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Remington Font Styles

And now we take a look at the Remington typewriter font styles:

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