Category: From the Desk of Reverend Munk
Typecasts from the desk of the Right Reverend Theodore Munk
type-in.org launched!
I’ve set up a list of past and future type-ins at type-in.org, let me know if I’ve missed any from the past or that are coming up. If you are planning a Type-In, please be sure to let me know so I can list it on the Type-In Page.
Tilting for Visibility: Travel Typewriters and TRS-80 Model 100’s
Empire Aristocrat Tripod Field Typewriter – Part 2
Tripod-Mounted Empire Aristocrat Field Typewriter
Type-Ins not just for Typospherians anymore!
This article in the Beaver County PA Times announces a Type-In at Cafe Kolache on Feb 23rd, and as far as I can tell, the promoter, a Beaver County author and typewriter collector Valentine J. Brkich, is not a Typospherian. (although he should be) This could be the first “Type-In” held by a non-Typospherian, and […]
Happy Valentine’s Day, Typosphere!
This is the last 7 pictures on my phone:
Predictably, an Olivetti Valentine article in a design magazine On Valentine’s Day
The Scandalous Valentine Ettore Sottsass Wanted to Give You in All Capital Letters Surprisingly well-informed, but again neglects to mention Sottass’s lack of involvement with the final design.
Royal Empress Typewriter Owner’s Manual, 1961
On a personal note, I love this manual because it’s a really fine example of old-school spot color design and printing, which was far cheaper to do back in 1961 than full-color process printing. Nowadays it’s far cheaper to do 4-color than this sort of exacting color knockouts and fill halftones, and you just never […]
Thousands of typewriters stored at the bottom of the ocean?
This article in the Sioux City Journal about a retiring typewriter repairman has an interesting line in it: The brothers also cleaned and bagged typewriters for the Army and Navy and then transported them to Chicago. The typewriters were sealed up and put in an unusual place. “I asked them, what they do with them […]
IBM Executive Typewriter Operator’s Manual – 1950’s
This is for Dwayne at VTO, who just picked up a sweet Executive, and would probably like to know how to work it. From the archives of Bill Wahl.
Beta Testers for Typewriter Database Wanted!
Typewriter Database is now seeking typewriter collectors who have photos of their collections and serial numbers handy to beta-test the Typewriter Gallery Uploader. If you would like to be among the first intrepid Typewriter Hunters to upload typewriter galleries for your collection and sightings, please leave a comment below indicating you would like to be […]
Show all 603 Known Typewriter Manufacturers and Marques…
The Typewriter Database Manufacturers and Marques page…
The 4th Phoenix Typewriter Round-Up & Type-In
Corona 4 – Colored 49’ers crushed by Some Team I’d Never Even Heard Of…
Damn and blast you, eBay!
*Sigh*, I’m getting consistently sniped anytime I bid on things on eBay. This time I’m extra-sad because the item that got sniped from me at the last second now was this: Ames General Catalog No. 9, which is very likely the same or a newer edition of source #11 for the Typewriter Database. It’s a […]
Feature Comparison: The Blue Bomber VS 1970 721
The Blue Bomber: Part 2
My goodness, I sure get reactions when I write about electric typewriters! Seems there’s some protest over the idea of repainting the Blue Bomber, enough so that I feel I should justify that idea. I feel it should be noted that The Bomber already has been repainted – the original color was a smooth, lighter […]
Yet another Selectric 721 – The Blue Bomber
Typewriter Database: Weekend Update!
I worked quite a bit on the codebase of typewriterdatabase.com this weekend, building out the member’s Virtual Typewriter Collection Gallery stuff – it’s not quite ready to be rolled out for members to start uploading their collections, but it soon will be – maybe a week or two if I get some free time. If […]
MultiMedia Type-In Presentation
Whispers in the Wind: Phoenix Type-In 4
Underwood Portables: A Quandry and The Process, Plus A Shiny Clean 5TE
Shipman Ward 1954: Accessories
Third Phoenix Type-In News Report
I don’t think I ever got around to posting this after it aired last year, but here’s a local news story on the Third Phoenix Type-In at the Luxe:
1958 Smith-Corona 5TE Electric Portable
The Iron Lady – The other 5TE I found at this Deseret.
Every Single Morning
Lo, these many years ago when I was a much younger and angrier soul, I had a 4-track tape recorder and a room full of guitars, amps, cheap microphones, keyboards and whatnot, and a burning desire to change the world through music. I called myself Ted Worthless and released about a half-dozen albums home-recorded on […]
Marchant Figuremaster adding machine
So, I was poking around on local Craigslist this morning, and although I don’t even remotely have an interest in collecting old adding machines, I will sometimes take a peek. Adding machines, and to a certain extent, Spirit Duplicators are like the ugly cousins of typewriters. Originally, the three were usually sold at the same […]
Random Typecast Sept 18, 2000
New sources for the Typewriter Database, and a free offer!
Mickey Spillane’s Smith-Corona Super-Speed can be yours for only $85,000
Well, ok, the eBay auction includes 200 or so other signed early works and ephemera, but the piece de resistance is the beat-up old Super-Speed that Spillane used to write his early stuff. This is an auction that only Steve Soboroff could love, I guess, and I suspect that price tag might make even that […]
Robot Font Revival
Last Bit of fresh rubber for Little Jake
Heh, the cloth-ribbon IBM Selectric doesn’t like to type on a Matte-finish paper. It’s almost like the ink gets squeezed out of the impact point and leaves something that almost passes as an outline font.