Month: April 2011
My complaint for today: Browser form fields
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?
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 […]
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 […]
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
I guess we should actually be celebrating the death of Godrej?
Another poster for the 2nd Phoenix Typewriter Round-Up!
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 […]
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Remington Font Styles
And now we take a look at the Remington typewriter font styles:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Royal Font Styles
And now we take a look at the Royal typewriter typefaces:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Olivetti Font Styles
And now we take a look at Olivetti typestyles:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Hermes Font Styles
And now, the Hermes Typewriter font faces offered to customers in 1964:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Smith-Corona (SCM) Font Styles
And now we take a look at the Smith-Corona (SCM) typewriter typefaces:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Olympia Font Styles
And now we take a look at the Olympia typewriter font styles:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: R.C. Allen VisOmatic Font Styles
And now we take a look at the R.C. Allen typestyles:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Facit Font Styles
And now, the typestyle offerings of Facit in 1964:
1964 NOMDA Blue Book: Adler Typewriter Font Styles
One of the things I scanned from Bill Wahl’s 1964 National Office Machine Dealer’s Association Blue Book was the large section detailing the typestyles available to customers ordering a typewriter from a dealer. It’s surprising how many different typestyles were offered by each manufacturer, and a great many of these styles are ones I’ve never […]
National Office Machine Dealer Association 1980 Typewriter Age Guide
Bill Wahl down at Mesa Typewriter Exchange was kind enough to allow me to bring my scanner & a laptop down to his shop and scan in some of the old serial number info he has in his large file cabinet full of dealer catalogs, repair information and other ephemera he’s been collecting since his […]
A request for font-making typospherians
Please submit your typewriter fonts to Google Web Fonts! Google Web Fonts is a resource that allows webmasters to embed fonts in your web pages (or blog) and use the fonts in text on your page. I use one font for the titles on my blog, and at least one other typospherian I think is […]
Ahab has found her whale.
All God’s Chilluns Gots Shoes… Or at least the Hermes 2000 does!
The Baffling Case of the Hermes 2000 Skipping ‘A’
Haha! I found someone who has a Hermes 2000 with almost the exact same skipping key issue that I have! You may remember the last time I pulled Ellery out to play, where I described the annoying problem I was having with him, well it turns out that fellow typecaster Fossils Without Fear is having […]
Happiness is a warm Hermes 3000…
Today’s Results: 2011 CBT Classic
It was on the way, I swear!
On the “Something For Nothing” principle, and a new collecting obsession.
On that note, one issue I’m pondering is how strict I should make the data entry scheme for the typewriter database. for instance, here’s a possible schema for that table: CREATE TABLE typ_typewriters ( typ_id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, last_ts timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, member_id int(11) NOT NULL default ‘0’, manufacturer varchar(250) default NULL, […]
Welcome little number 20!
Public Typecast: Birthday Party Madness
There was a birthday party at Amber’s, who is my next candidate for getting into the Typosphere, as she has a healthy collection and love for typewriters, just no blog yet. Using her 1950’s Remington Letter Riter, I began my typecast on the patio where partygoers first gathered and waited for the Booze Fairies to […]
Popular traffic boosters for your blog!
Public Typecasting and ‘Hot Rod Typewriters’ Magazine
Tim Jelinek’s Machine Age Automotive Books
Lunch with Victor Linoff
democracy is about voting
Has my search for the Perfect Typewriter finally ended?
Olivetti Lettera 32/35 Monster Truck Mashup! BRIIING YOUR CAMERAAA!
Seriously, though – other than the greater prevalence of plastic on the L35 guts and the lack of a touch control lever (useless on the L32 anyway) and mount points for the floorplate, the guts of these two machines is basically identical. Nothing really changed except the quality of the parts between 1964 and the […]