A new update I received from Peter Short this morning: Ted–just wanted to drop you a quick note on our progress. Things seem to be moving along especially with the older style platens–we have seen a number of makes and models including Underwoods, Royals, Smith Corona, Olivetti, Oliver, LC Smith, Hermes, KMM and Remingtons. The […]
Month: July 2012
Haboob Vs. BBQ
El Diablo Takes One For The Team…
Computers that want to be typewriters…
Here’s another one to file under the “confused identity or possible hipster affectation” folder: Noisy Typer for Mac OS X Sigh…
My Mother’s Grandmother’s Typewriter
Hello, my name is X and I’m a Typewriteric.
I insist on “Typewriteric” because it’s not “alcoholholic”. Of course, the instant I type this, “A Typewriter a Day” gets added to the blogroll. The typosphere is on the ball! Typed on “El Diablo” 1929 Corona 4, “Adwoa” 1955 Swissa Junior, and “The Iron Lady” (pictured) 1960 Smith-Corona Electric 5TE. Ruler is a nifty wooden […]
Akismet has protected your site from 5,210 spam comments already, but there’s nothing in your spam queue at the moment.
SPAM on your blog, don’t ya love it? I use WordPress, and Akismet is amazingly good at intercepting SPAM comments and filing them in a “look at these and push the EMPTY SPAM button when you’re done” file for me to casually glance over every few weeks and dump. It is very rare that Akismet […]
Further Update From JJ Short on Typewriter Platen Recovering
Got this email from Mr. Peter Short today: Ted we have sent out about a dozen platens to folks who very graciously sent them to us to evaluate. We think we are spot on with the material and hardness at least for the older models and are awaiting material in after the holiday to start looking […]