Manual Entry

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Monday, September 3, 2012

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Today I strolled down to Antique Row to see what is there. Some pretty interesting stuff, all out of my price range.
First I found a Remington which I didn't photograph, and the Electress is still at the store it's been in for months.
Then walking in another shop I saw this for $95.

very cool upstrike and nice looking, but the carriage didn't move with key presses. It may be a simple adjustment I don't know about. Neat though.

Remington portable 5. They wanted $325.

Adding machine from Facit

This Adler (8?) was marked down from $275 to $140 with "negotiable" scrawled in. Are those outrigger buttons for shift or what?


Adler had a big wide ribbon and red besides. Can't be easy to replace. Cool machine though.

Plenty of sewing machines too:

I only took this featherweight pic for the price - $325.

The next two are toys, about 1/2 scale:

I saw a number of other typewriters not pictured. Near the Fox was an Underwood similar to my Champion portable, and another store had 3 SCM's and an Olympia all from the 1960's.

There were also a lot of neat old phones, which I didn't photograph, and a couple of ham rigs with no prices. I don't ask so they don't get their hopes up.

Saturday, September 1, 2012

responses and shopping

To start with, I had a question about the Adler I used the other day. Here's my profile of the Adler from a few months ago.

first the bins - look at this cool old hair dryer!

biggest dymo I've ever seen

in the stores, first I found this Lettera but the carriage wouldn't advance with key presses. Since the tab worked, it eans something is stuck like the space bar is sprung or something. I left it.