Weapon of Choice: “Cadwallader” 1963 Olympia SM-7
Converting a TRS-80 Model 100 REX ROM to work in a Tandy 200
Well, I was too broke to spring for the NADSbox and REX200 when they were available, and regretted it for sure when the supply dried up and they couldn’t be had anymore. The NADSbox I can live without, thanks to mComm, but a REX200 was something I really wanted for my 1985 TRS-80 Tandy 200 […]
Inspiration and more reports from the 8th Phoenix Type-In: Brought to you by the Letters PR-10-M
Weapon of Choice: “Mothra”, 1972 IBM Selectric Composer The Quirky Qwerty’s Report Joe VC’s “Smuggling Typewriters to Phoenix” report and first video review of some of the movers & shakers in the AZ scene. Joe’s second video interview from the 8th Phoenix Type-In – This one’s about MEMEME!
8th Phoenix Type-In Report, and an afterparty with the Albuqwerty Type Writer Society
Nice selection of books available at Changing Hands. I didn’t have the “Typewriter Rodeo” one yet, so I got a copy of that one. The typewriters were pretty busy. Although it seemed like there wasn’t much more than 30 people around at once, I noticed that the people seemed to completely change from one hour […]
Leaping to the Defense of the Late 1950’s Underwood Portable
Weapon of Choice: “Tex”, 1957 Underwood Quiet Tab Deluxe (Golden Touch) Richard Polt’s post on his Typewriter Safari, which prompted thoughts on the Underwood Crest. UPDATE: This post came up in the Facebook ATC, prompting a discussion of this typeface, which I called “Slab-Serif”. Turns out the real name of the typeface is “Stymie”, and […]
Second Chandler Type-In Report – Galaxies, Buttons and Commanders, oh my!
On the “Death” of the Typosphere, a Few Thoughts and Ideas
Weapon of Choice: Indy, 1957 Tower Chieftain III Had to prune a few hundred comments when the Beta Testers for Typewriter Database Wanted! post had so many that it stopped loading. The sheer number of comments broke the page!
Cool Night Typing, A Weird Selectric Ball and Typers to Bring to the Type-In – UJTU
Phoenix Type-In for National Typewriter Day, Sunday June 24, 2018 – Even Though NTD is actually on the 23rd
While the Typewriter Day post on The Typosphere blog went neglected after 2014 (but it’s nice to go back and see the videos from 2011), Typewriter Day on June 23rd has still been suitably celebrated across the globe. This year, it appears the Phoenix celebration will happen the day after, on the 24th: I’m a […]
Vintage Typewriter Hunter Multimedia box
I noted in my last post that I was pondering loading a fun Linux onto one of the Core 2 Duos for the Type-In, I meant AMD Turions, actually: Weapon of Choice: 2008 HP Pavilion dv6815nr 2.0 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 4gb DDR2 SDRAM, 120gb SSD, 1280×800 15.4″ WXGA screen Nvidia GeForce Go […]
Chandler Type-In – Saturday June 9, 2018
YES! {insert air guitar solo, a really ripping Glenn Branca style cacophony of multi-layered atonal scream backed with tube amplifier harmonics and subsonic bass.} Why am i so happy, you ask? The Quirky Qwerty, previously known as Jeremiah, (but now that he has joined the ranks of the Typosphere, he gets his chosen Typecaster Name, […]
Staplers, Stapling Machines & Fasteners – Volume 1, a Review
Ooh, look what came in the mail today! This is a book I’ve been waiting a few months for, and it’s been very much worth the wait. I wrote a bit about this project before, when I’d seen an earlier, incomplete version of the manuscript, and I was quite excited about it then. Now that […]
Five Years Later: update on Using WD-40 to bring an old typewriter ribbon back to life!
Original post, and how to re-ink an old typewriter ribbon with WD-40. This 1970 Royal Sprite @TWDB
I’m bad at incentivizing Patreon Goals, and TWDB Epsilon Ideas :P
John Munroe over in the Facebook ATC group asked how many Patreon pledges would I need to make the mobile version of the TWDB into one where you can log in and do Typewriter Hunter stuff like upload galleries and etc. I replied that it was already happening, specifically that the upcoming TWDB Version Epsilon […]
Vintage Laptop Collecting?
Hmmn, looks like I have a collection of vintage laptops now. I never really thought about it because I only bought the one Thinkpad T21 at a thrift store, and the rest have been given to me because they “didn’t work” in some way or were replaced by newer machines and weren’t wanted anymore. The […]
Silly Scope Music
In 1989 I had a VHS camera, an old 1960’s tube Oscilloscope and a song to play through it to watch the squiggly green lines jump around. This is the result: The title bit is at the end, and is built from the intro to “Krazy Kitty Overdrive“, a 1990 VHS video letter I made […]
So Emo in ’97
A sampling of typecasts from a box of memories vintage 1997. Yep, was typecasting even then, but I didn’t know what it was called, or that it even had a name. Had names for plenty other things, apparently…
Weird Picture-Taker: Vtech Phusion toy PDA from the year 2000
Me, like in 2006 maybe? No datestamping on the Phusion, but that’s about the right year, I think. Upsampled from the Phusion’s original 120×160 bitmap about 12 years after I took the selfie. One of the benefits of not having a car is that I now finally get to go through boxes in the garage […]
The One-Car Family
This Typecast Brought to You by the Letters: UN-10-L
“Mothra” 1972 Selectric Composer Model 6251 @ TWDB Lyrics (Yuji Koseki) Mosura ya Mosura dongan kasakuyan indoo muu rosuto uiraadoa, hanba hanbamuyan randa banunradan tounjukanraa kasaku yaanmu Mosura ya Mosura yasashisasae wasure arehateta hito no kokoro inorinagara utai, ai no uta Mothra oh Mothra Hear our call for you to save us over time, over […]
A Timeslippy Review of the Quickpad Pro
Towers of Tapes digitized, and I burned up one VCR already, but remembering a lot that I forgot. Speaking of which, I forgot to review this Quickpad Pro after I got it, although I made a few false starts. I forgot a lot that I had learned about the machine over the year that I’ve […]
Stapler of the Week: Tatum Secretary Model T-120
In my thrifting runs, I run into a lot of Tatum Buddy model staplers, but the other Tatum models occur less frequently – so this shiny chrome Secretary certainly caught my eye on the thrift store shelf. For $2 it was mine! :D The Tatum Secretary opens for tacking and loads staples in a manner […]
The Apollo 10 and Undercover 1985 VHS Revived (more memories for the Ghost)
Undercover, live show May, 1985:
Ghosts With Machines
Stapler of the Week: Bostitch B8 PowerCrown
This is another story about a 70-year old stapler design that has survived into the 21st Century, and is still sold today looking exactly as it appeared when it was first introduced (see Ace Pilot 404). The Bostitch B8 “PowerCrown” stapler is a compact pocketable stapler long sold as a “Travel/Desk” stapler by the Boston […]
Remington Fold-A-Matic: Easy access to your Super-Riter and later Typewriters
Discussion of the Remington Fold-A-Matic feature for the Super-Riter @ Facebook Antique Typewriter Maintenance Group. 1953 Remington Super Riter @ Typewriter Database
What’s all this hoopla about staplers?
The American Stationer The O.G. Stapler of the Week (Mr. Lemke, we miss you! Please start posting again!)
Stapler of the Week: 1939 TOT SF Speed Fastener and 60 years of Hot TOTs
The TOT Speed Fastener is of stamped steel construction with Bakelite base and topper. Yet another $2 Goodwill find, the TOT Speed Fastener (middle) was the contemporary little brother of the Parrot Speed Fastener Model 3 (back) and the forerunner of the incredibly common Swingline TOT 50 (front). If you love your old TOT 50 […]
The Hermes Baby and Rocket Typewriter Repair Bible now available!
Hey, look what just came in today’s mail! :D The Hermes Baby and Rocket Typewriter Repair Bible is now available! 98 Pages, Professionally printed and coil bound to lay flat on your work table. Contains: Hermes Baby and Rocket User Manuals Complete 1963 Service, Troubleshooting and Adjustment Manual Covering: Typewriters: Hermes Baby and Rocket Models […]
Stapler of the Week: 1936 Bostitch B5
Ahh, the venerable, tank-like Bostitch B5 stapler. I remember using these in school back in the 1970’s, but the version that my school used was the battleship grey wrinkle painted ones from the 50’s. Interestingly, Bostitch seems to have followed the painting scheme used by Royal typewriters, where they used black wrinkle paint in the […]
A little fixin’ one and sayin’ goodbye to a pretty one.
1925 Underwood 3-Bank on TWDB 1961 Royal Futura 800 on TWDB
Stapler of the Week: 1962 Swingline 333
I’ve been lusting after a Swingline 333 ever since I saw one on MOLG’s “Stapler Fetish” page, and finally found one at Deseret for a Buck! :D Mine is a light brown finished model 333, not quite the black enamel and woodgrain-top model that is much more highly desired, but what the heck – would […]
Report From First Chandler Type-In
Another Stompbox Trade with Key Snap, and The Typewriter Hunter Badge
This 1925 Underwood Portable 3-Bank @ TWDB
Chandler, AZ Type-In on January 20, 2018
I saw these flyers at the local Typewriter shop, and thought I ought to promote it (: