Selectric Typehunt on Ebay – Forms 1 striken from the wantlist! (Calligraphy 96 sighted)
27 High-res Typesamples from ProfessorC’s extensive collection of Selectric Type Elements
Fellow collector and Selectric enthusiast ProfessorC volunteered to type out samples of a number of GP and IBM type elements on his carbon-ribbon Selectrics and scan them in at high-resolution. Many of these are not shown with type samples in the GP/DSC catalogs, so now we know what these fonts look like. The versions I’m […]
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, we love you!
Selectric Model 72 Ribbon Tips, Plus A Lettera Makeover!
GP Hendrix Gothic Selectric Type Element (red cap, 10/12 pitch)
Oh, I actually looked it up in the DSG Catalog, and that particular characterset is French Canadian.
DSG IBM Selectric Type Element Catalog – Type Styles
I would guess that DSG is what GP turned into later in it’s history, as this is an updated catalog, newer than the one I just posted. This comes from the collection of Bill Wahl at MTE. Note that I have now collected all of the Typewriter Typestyles posts into one category: Typewriter Typestyles/Fonts
GP IBM Selectric Typeball Catalog – Font Styles
I can’t remember where I got this – probably from the Golfball Typewriter Yahoo group, which is a great resource for finding out about the rich and interesting world of Selectrics. Note that my GP “Calligraphy” ball is listed in this catalog, and there’s a few others I’ll be looking for now too: Headline, Contempo, […]
UJTU: Calligraphy Typeball fer der blogification & Nano Holding OK
The Blue Bomber Rides Again, Nano procrastination, Spray Paint and weird Type Balls
Nano begins with doubts, and a shiny new stripey Speedline!
So many typecasts, so little time (and scanner on the fritz)
I just walked by the pile of typecasts sitting on my scanner waiting to be converted to electrons for posting, and it dawned on me that November might be a handy excuse to get these things online. I have no firm story idea for Nano yet, and if I took the time to actually edit […]
UJTU: Wedding Guest or Halloween Party plus Back in the Itek Saddle
Going through the pics I’ve been taking with the F707, I’m struck by the people I take pictures of. Sometimes friends, sometimes strangers – always interesting. I recently went to a wedding in Tucson and a Halloween party. guess which photo was taken where: I’m going to be spending more time in the press garage […]
One Stormy Night – This Quiet Village Mix
Earlier this month I did another “One Stormy Night” mix while pondering the breakup of some friends of mine who have been mentioned at various times in this blog. She is the one who found me an Underwood Golden Touch right when I was jonesing for one a couple of years ago, and he is […]
Using WD-40 to bring an old typewriter ribbon back to life!
So you have a typewriter with a dry ribbon and don’t know what to do? Well, you can buy a new one on Ebay or at most office supply stores, but are you impatient or penny-pinching and want immediate satisfaction? Well, if you have a can of WD-40, a cardboard box and an old rag, […]
A Ribbon Breaks Bad
Some new balls to play with…
The Blue Bomber Gandalf The Grey Ryan Adney’s CTP Poster contest The gathering in Chestnut Ridge
On-The-Go Blog Entry Production Pack
No Rest For The Wicked: 1966 Olympia SM-9 ($7.99)
No more Neo, how about the Alphasmart Dana?
The major attractions to the hobby of admiring and using retrotech is the low cost of entry and the ease of seeing what technologies of the past have stood the test of time to survive and prove their worth and durability for particular tasks. Recent blog posts in the ‘sphere have lamented the obsolescence (or […]
A Failure of Willpower: 1971 IBM Selectric 721
NanoWriMaybe…
One more try for compatible embedded video format for Timelapses
The Replacement Killer, Hummingbirds, Fall Porch Typewriting Season and Rotting Potato Timelapse
Video not playing? Download file instead.
The Family Typewriters
Royal Sprite 1971 Typewriter Ephemera
Timelapse studies: Strawberry and Grapefruit
Shot with a 1984 TRS-80 Model 100 and a 1996 Canon Powershot 600: Video not playing? Download file instead. And for those who like seeing sunbeams spin by, here’s a grapefruit study I did many years back. Includes free bugs and an occasional bird darting in to grab a tasty bug to eat :D Video […]
Revisiting the Dayton Typewriter – what we know so far…
I’ve updated the Dayton page at the Typewriter Database now that Typospherian Mark Adams has found the *seventh* known surviving Dayton and uploaded a gallery for it to the database. I’ve added links to all of the current information we have: Richard Polt’s ETCetera article on the Dayton and his acquisition of Dayton # AX93 […]
Retro-Tech Thursday: Timelapse Photography with Canon Powershot 600 and TRS-80 Model 100
Video not playing? Download file instead. This is a timelapse study of the habits of a turtle, a cat and a bunch of small fish over the course of a day and night that I did some years back. I just found out I can render these videos to MP4 and embed them via HTML5, […]
Sony DSC-F707, the $35 Infrared Project Camera
UPDATE: My memory stick came in this morning, and I was able to take some pics using my jury-rigged filter stack. Results are interesting! There’s some visible light frequencies getting through the stack, and having 5 very dark bits of glass in front of the lens doesn’t result in great sharpness, but it works! You […]
Bazooka Joe Vs The U.F.O.
Stop me before I thrift again, the teaser edition…
Flashback: Infrared photography @ Make Magazine Oh, here’s some teaser photos I’ve taken with the accessory lenses:
Thriftin’ trip to Tucson, Kon Tiki again and wedding ring tattoos! (:
Kon Tiki was our lunch stop again – they were having some sort of Luau event, and we got our “United States of Aloha” Passports. If we drink every cocktail they serve, we get a swag bag. Vampire barbeques a wonderful dinner of marinated chicken, sweet potatoes, grilled banannas, pineapple and other fruits. Deee-lish! :D […]
Lens mount mystery: Tele-Lentar 1:5.5 f=300mm
Of all the lenses I have picked up at thrift stores, I have been able to identify every mount save one: This Tele-Lentar 300mm prime telephoto lens. So, I am appealing to the Intartubes for help. The lens has some sort of swappable intermediate mount, so I really have 2 chances of figuring out an […]