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Good god, jewelry is bad enough – now someone’s chopping typewriter keys to make computer mice?

Hey, you can now get typewriter stamps for your typewritten letters! The USPS is offering the Pioneers of American Industrial Design “forever” stamps honoring 12 of this country’s most innovative designers, including Eliot Noyes, who designed the IBM Selectric. Get yours today and impress your fellow typospherians (:

Ted & Tori travel to the Brinton Desert Botanical Garden (like a mile away) to celebrate World Typewriter Day 2011 by typing on their matched 1964 Hermes 3000’s in the 108 degree heat. Our Typewriter day video. Hopefully watching two people type is less boring than watching one person type. :D We decided to celebrate […]

Just wanna tease ya with some pics of a few of the machines that made it to the 2nd Phoenix Type-In, organized beautifully by Ryan at Magic Margin at the historic Monti’s La Casa Vieja in Tempe, Arizona. More detailed typewriter and people pics are coming as soon as I write my report. (: P.S. […]

Mesa Second Fridays Art Walk

A new typecaster has joined our ranks, and I’ve added a link to his blog in my blogroll. Unfortunately, his blog is in German (or Swiss or Swiss-German, I can’t tell the difference), so we English-only types might happen to miss out on this awesome video he posted. In fact, it’s so awesome that I […]

Heh, it’s been awhile since I’ve been broadcast anywhere, so it was a pleasant surprise to find out that my buddy Wayne Butane did a segment for Evolution Control Committee‘s “The Sound of Plaid” and managed to shoehorn in some of my stuff for his broadcast. You can hear it in about an hour and […]

The Feds have finally won the case that determined whether or not they could sell off Ted Kaczynski’s stuff, and now it’s all up at auction, including his rather nice black enameled 1930’s Corona Flat-top typewriter. Act now! The auction runs from May 18 to June 2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/usmarshals/sets/72157626579208135/

I have finally gotten the seller of the Tandy 200 and Model 100 I aquired some weeks ago to actually ship them. Poor fellow suffers from some sort of public spaces anxiety and was leaving me notes about his heroic attempts to forge the single block between his home and the nearest post office. His […]

Confession time: I’ve lusted after an Alphasmart Dana pretty much since they came out, but could never really justify dropping a couple hundred bucks on one, and the last time I checked the ‘Bay for them, even the used ones ran about $150 (about a year or so ago). So imagine my surprise and delight […]

Based on the serial numbers and dates I found on Machines of Loving Grace, and the serial number and date supplied by Manual Entry in reply to my last post, I’m going to estimate that my SCM Sterling hybrid Galaxie/Super-5 dates to 1964. I still wish I had good serial number data for SCM machines […]

PS: This is post #98, I really have been a busy little beaver!

The Craigslist ad for a $15 Lettera 22 Anyone in the Phoenix area want a 1940’s Royal KMM (or HH, i can’t tell the difference) for $38?