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Bill Wahl down at Mesa Typewriter Exchange was kind enough to allow me to bring my scanner & a laptop down to his shop and scan in some of the old serial number info he has in his large file cabinet full of dealer catalogs, repair information and other ephemera he’s been collecting since his […]

Please submit your typewriter fonts to Google Web Fonts! Google Web Fonts is a resource that allows webmasters to embed fonts in your web pages (or blog) and use the fonts in text on your page. I use one font for the titles on my blog, and at least one other typospherian I think is […]

Haha! I found someone who has a Hermes 2000 with almost the exact same skipping key issue that I have! You may remember the last time I pulled Ellery out to play, where I described the annoying problem I was having with him, well it turns out that fellow typecaster Fossils Without Fear is having […]

On that note, one issue I’m pondering is how strict I should make the data entry scheme for the typewriter database. for instance, here’s a possible schema for that table: CREATE TABLE typ_typewriters ( typ_id int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, last_ts timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, member_id int(11) NOT NULL default ‘0’, manufacturer varchar(250) default NULL, […]

There was a birthday party at Amber’s, who is my next candidate for getting into the Typosphere, as she has a healthy collection and love for typewriters, just no blog yet. Using her 1950’s Remington Letter Riter, I began my typecast on the patio where partygoers first gathered and waited for the Booze Fairies to […]

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One Stormy Night – Monsoon Mix Aug 2005 – DJ Munk The above soundfile is big, almost an hour long and 128k stereo. It is best experienced in good headphones or a very powerful stereo system in the twilight hour just after sunset. Note that there’s about 90 seconds of silence at the beginning of […]

UPDATE: Turns out I had the “Spyware Protection “Designed To Protect”‘ malware, which both Malwarebytes and AVG refused to clean off. I ended up curing it by re-installing the drive, booting in ‘safe mode with networking’ and running Hitman Pro 3.5 – and that finally did the trick. Now I can finally post my typecast, […]

I really enjoy writing the *beginning* of a story, but I rarely make it past the first page or two. After that, my mind plays out the story with a dozen different plotlines and I can never choose which one to go with. I’ve heard a lot of people say that the beginnings are the […]

When the current “keychopper” drama on the PTF broke onto the Typosphere via Adowa’s post on Retro Tech Geneva, I made a snarky comment about Typerati Secret Police ninjas that later prompted this little vignette: …and then there’s this little snippet which I’d typed up on Einstein a day or two before – completely unrelated, […]