Just today found a Remington Standard desktop, plastic top casing, for $5 at a garage sale. 6 cpi with characters 1/4 inch high. All caps. No shift key. Is...
Congratulations! Sounds like it is a "mill", a telegrapher's typewriter. Peter...
Peter M. Weil
pmweil@...
Sep 2, 2006 3:53 am
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... I don't remember about this specific model, but certainly some models worked that way. The concept is to not print a blank page when the ribbon runs out. ...
... I've never seen one, and would certainly have bought it at that price if it was in any sort of operable condition. I think these are sometimes called...
Jay, I'm trying to figure out what ribbon the 2000 takes. On Swintec's web site they have a SW2000, but on the label on the typewriter it just says 2000. Is...
Congrats. I don't know how unusual they are today (at that price), but 6 pitch machines, single case (all caps, no shift) as well as double case (cap & small...
I am a newcomer to your group. I am looking for information and material relating to Folded Typewriter Postcards. These were approved for UPU use in 1910 and...
... Welcome to the list. I never saw one of those, but the US did have something similar. I bought a stack of them in a thrift store a few years ago. I'm no...
Thanks Cuyler, Yes, there were reply cards used by most countries of the world. But the typewriter postcards were not reply cards, even though they had a...
Didn't we have someone on this list who also collected calculators? A friend was showing me a 1950s Monroe - Model L-200-N, s/n J508247. He thought he had the...
When I used to type for a living, I remember all cap typewriters for printing labels, waybills & so on. DMTanr [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hey, guys, Some of you may remember that I asked some questions about a Remington manual office TW before. Its carriage doesnšt escape when the spacebar or a...
Ned Brooks told me that my pix are too small, so herešs the eBay Item #, where the pix are a LITTLE bigger: 250015890845 Thanks for all your help. DMT ...
My librarian friend just sent me an advertisement posted in BAS BLEU {Bookseller- by- Post} catalog volume 143,summer 2006. This company is located in...
Hi Will, A great site!! I have seen more variants of European machines than I ever expected! I have come across the Dea before and to my mind it looks like a...
Nickurania@...
Sep 5, 2006 10:51 pm
32864
... mytypewriter.com sells refurbished manual typewriters, and also refurbished selectrics. I was taken aback to see that they also sell "typewriter jewelry"...
Charles, I was disappointed when I found the typewriter jewelry section on mytypewriter.com. I understand that these key tops were taken from wrecked...
Thank you very much, Nick -- although I should immediately note that the site would not have been possible without the decades of work previously performed by...
... I guess I could call and cuss them out, it would be a local call anyway. I must be about 40 miles east of this den of iniquity. The French name means...
Hi everyone, I was hoping to save myself some time (and pain) hoping you can point me to resources or pointers that will help me rebuild an Underwood #5. The...
Hi, Bill, Concerning the attachment of the "drawband", that flat piece of cloth that pulls the carriage along: the metal piece on its right-hand end connects...
... If it's to be displayed with a crashed hard drive, maybe it should be left as is! ... I never tried that disassembly, but I always figure I will have to...
The F.S. Webster Company is generally known to typewriter and ribbon tin collectors for producing Webster and O.K. (Aux Cayes) brand ribbons. But the company...
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