Words are Winged: Tuning an Underwood 5
Month: October 2015
This Typecast Brought to You by the Letters: AR-10-M
Ok, so like when I was twelve, I ran away and decided to live on the streets of Hollywood…
How to restore the paper scale on an IBM Selectric
This past June, I was corresponding with our friend ProfessorC about an original blue-trim 1962 IBM Selectric that he was in the process of restoring. The topic of our discussions was the condition of the front stainless steel trim pieces (stainless steel was only used on the very earliest Selectrics, later years saw a switch […]
This Typecast Brought to You by the Letters: T-11-B
The last cigarette smokers in America were located in a box canyon south of Donner Pass in the High Sierra by two federal tobacco agents in a helicopter who spotted the little smoke puffs just before noon. One of them, Ames, the district chief, called in the ground team by air-to-ground radio. Six men in […]
Surly Chicken Farms at longer than 720 nanometers: Sony DSC-F707
It’s Beginning to Rain…
It’s beginning to rain, rain, rain – hear the voice of the father, Saying whosoever will come and drink from the water, I will pour out my spirit on my sons and my daughters, If you’re thirsty and dry, lift your hands to the sky, It’s beginning to rain… “The Only Good Bug is a […]
IBM Selectric MT/SR Type Ball – an odd duck!
This Typecast Brought to You by the Letters: J-11-BI
With the release of Issue #110, the Board of Directors and Editor of the Early Typewriter Collectors Association has made good on a promise to offer every issue older than 2 years from publication for free download on the etconline.org website. This presents you with the opportunity to read up on an awful lot of […]