1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
Month: February 2023
Rocky’s Role in the Vanishing of Pre-1920 Typewriters
Just months after the founding of the OAMI, the newsletter announced the parameters of the training school’s need for machines on which to train the students. The machines accepted for the program were rebuilt at the cost of materials and returned to the dealers who resold them. There was a hard limit to how old […]
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: Imperial Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
Mail Call & ArtCipher 5
See, the thing is this; I type as the SPIRIT wills, speaking in tounges that even I don’t understand afterwards. Ask me what it’s about and I’ll shrug, a vessel wrung out through the fingers onto the 13″ platen 1973 IBM Selectric II holding the tiny 3 1/2″ wide newsprint canvas. The SPIRIT done rode […]
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: IBM Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
1938 Corona Zephyr Typewriter Service Adjustment Methods
There is a clear delineation between pre-WWII service instructions for typewriters and Post WWII service manuals. Prior to WWII, it was expected that the typewriter mechanic would be an apprentice to an experienced mechanic, or would have come out of factory training or even working for a time for a typewriter manufacturer before striking off […]
Mystery Box From Nashville! Brought To You By The Letters: UN-11-MIC
Weapon of Choice: “Mothra” 1972 IBM Selectric Composer #5016537 Typewriter Club Live: 2023-02-05 Box not full of Olympia SM3, despite label claims.
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: Hermes Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
ARTCIPHER NUMBER FOUR
Weapon of Choice: “Dr. Lizardo” 1973 IBM Selectric II #26 1220365 Beguiled by the beauty of the Calligraphy typeball, I neglected to switch into encryption mode for Number 4. Hopefully it will slip under the radar of Indifference, else the secret will be out… And let’s throw a little noise in there, to trick the […]
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: Facit Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
Easy Random Access Memory
Weapon of Choice: “Easy” 1964 Hermes 3000 #3246817
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: California Retyping Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces. CRC was a company that would take in the dealer’s used stock of machines with worn, damaged or undesirable type and they’d replace the slugs with new ones. These are the typefaces that got put on probably many thousands of used typewriters of nearly any brand, so […]
Mail Call! Three Letters Today! :D
Typewriter Club Live: 2023-02-05 Here’s an interesting binder that holds the pages of the 1950 Olympia SM2 Parts Manual I just scanned… How does the Correspondence System work when I get THREE letters in a single night, and my desk is covered in pages of a 1949 AMES Catalog I’m scanning? Well, for tonight I […]
1967 WOMDA Typewriter Typefaces: Adler Fonts
1967 Western Office Machine Dealer’s Association Typewriter typefaces.
More Books, an 1888 Hammond 1 and a nifty Corona 3 Case
Yay! We found the AMES General Catalog No. 7, 1949! We can now add this to 1940 No.5, 1946 No.100, 1955 No.9, 1960 No.10 and 1965 No.11 – 386 pages of typewriter parts, tools and products for the nation’s typewriter dealers added to the timeline. (: Whoops, make that serial #9016, not 9015. The left […]
1968 IBM Composer Typewriter Font Typestyle Catalog
1960 Union Foundry Typewriter Type Slug Specifications
This one is less a typestyle catalog and more about technical specifications of the typeslugs, keytops and other products offered to typewriter manufacturers by Union. Want to know how to read the markings on type slugs? There’s some of that here. Want to know what size key rings are on an Orga Privat, a Kappel […]
Art for Fart’s Sake
1953 IBM Executive Typewriter Brochure & Type Samples
1953 IBM Executive Typewriter Brochure & Type Samples
Mystery Service Manuals On The Way & Some Royal Delights
Weapon of Choice: 1941 Royal Companion #CD-226351 Whoops, the Margin Release linkage came out of the hole in the Center Stop paddle. Easy fix, though – turn the machine over, pull the paddle forward and re-insert the linkage. Royal’s ad in the 1940 National Typewriter and Office Machine Dealers Association “Souvenir Program”. The NT&OMDA dropped […]
1961 Adler Typewriter Type Font Styles
When someone purchased a particular Adler Primus serial number 3141007 in 1961, it would be clear to later investigators (me) that the purchaser was very interested in choosing just the right typeface for thier new portable typewriter. They had requested from the dealer a full typestyles catalog, chosen Ransmayer & Rodrian #84 Ra (Elite Imperial) […]
Some Reasons Why I Have 50 Typewriters
Weapon of Choice: 1957 Tower Commander #5AT635929 Had to move the year’s Correspondence out of a binder and into a file drawer. This might last another few of months. Weapon of Choice: “Eugene” 1970 Webster XL-747 #L0944386 Boomer wants to rub on letters too!
1954 Smith-Corona (SCM) Typewriter Type Styles and Keyboards Catalog
Here’s where I start when trying to identify the typeface on a Smith-Corona typewriter, and where I’m most successful in getting an ID. This PDF got passed to me almost a decade ago, but I’m not sure from where. Sadly, it’s a very dark, low-contrast scan, and not much can be done about it. The […]
Robot, I May Be Asking You To IMAGINE, but I Really Mean “Prove To Me That You Can’t”
Weapon of Choice: “Uncanny Valley” 2022 Midjourney Roboto BSAN Yeah – not exactly what I’m looking for. It’s kinda fez-like, but strong Jackie O vibes, and if that’s the best you can do, then you don’t know what one is.. There we go – no robot can steal as well as a human with Photoshop. […]
1939 Type Styles for Remington Typewriters
An excellent reference for especially pre-WW2 Remington typefaces. Much more than just a listing of faces, including what machines certain faces can be found on, what keyboards they were matched with, possible letter spacings and line heights, plus a special section on Noiseless types.
1928 Alfred Ransmayer & Albert Rodrian (RA/AR) Typewriter Typeface Font Reference Catalog
When I am working on identifying a typeface with the slug markings “R” or “AR”, or if the markings are not provided, I will make my first lookup in the “1928 RaRo A-B” catalog, which contains the typeface offerings of the Alfred Ransmayer & Albert Rodrian foundry as of 1928. These typefaces show up very […]