Remember to keep your typewriter covered when not in use. Typewriters, like everything else will gather dust when not covered, if left like uncovered for a long period of time, dust and grime will gather in the mechanical parts of the typewriter and cause issues such as sticking keys, etc. Try to keep it covered […]
Here we have a 1960’s, working Adler Tippa S vintage, manual portable typewriter. After some research on the serial number, it looks like the typewriter was produced in the 1960’s in Western Germany. Even though this Adler Tippa S typewriter was made in the 1960’s, it works very well! The comfortable keys are responsive, the […]
Language Ways to say typewriter Albanian makinë shkrimi Basque idazmakina Belarusian пішучая машынка Bosnian pisaća mašina Bulgarian пишеща машина Catalan màquina d’escriure Corsican macchina da scrivere Croatian pisaća mašina Czech psací stroj Danish skrivemaskine Dutch schrijfmachine Estonian kirjutusmasin Finnish kirjoituskone French machine à écrire Frisian skriuwmasine Galician máquina de escribir German Schreibmaschine Greek γραφομηχανή [grafomichaní] Hungarian […]
New 10m Red/Black typewriter ribbons in stock, suitable for the following typewriters ABC 1300 ABC 2000 ABC 3000 ABC 3001 ABC Portable ABC Standard ACM Standard Addo-X 9710 Addo-X M-15 Adler 121 D Adler 21 C Adler 21 D Adler Electric N.S. Adler Factura 3 Adler Factura 4 Adler Factura 40 Adler Factura 400 Adler […]
Authors and writers who had notable relationships with typewriters Early adopters Henry James dictated to a typist. Mark Twain claimed in his autobiography that he was the first important writer to present a publisher with a typewritten manuscript, for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Research showed that Twain’s memory was incorrect and that the first book submitted in typed form […]
There are only eleven reasons to use a typewriter: 1. Your penmanship is illegible. I mean, unreadable, so cocked-up and irregular that you use block printing and flowing script in the same five-letter word. The kind of handwriting that one of those legal experts would examine for a trial and say, “Oh, he’s guilty!” 2. […]
