- Goodbye Big Blue
- A Confederacy of Dunces
- IMC
- The Typewriter Copiers (A.B. Dick)
- Smith Corona Sterling
Goodbye Big Blue
The advent of the daisywheel electronic typewriter in the early 1980s meant the end of the dominance of the Selectric typewriter and IBM’s competitors just couldn’t help rubbing it in. Olivetti, manufacturer of the world’s first affordable, standalone electronic typewriters (ET-121, 221) in 1979, led the way in 1981: Sharp enjoyed an early presence in…
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Confederacy of Dunces by American novelist John Kennedy Toole was first published in 1980 … “I read someplace in the paper where they got plenty comuniss at college.” “Well, fortunately I didn’t meet them. Had they crossed my path, they would have been beaten to within an inch of their lives. Do you think…
IMC
Industria Meccanica di Chiavenna S.p.A, is the name of an Italian manufacturer normally associated with the manufacture of calculators and various “Rover” mechanical typewriters. Into the 1980s, the “Rover” name and an almost daisy-like four-petalled “Rover” decal appeared on a “Rover 246/256 Electronic” pair of portable daisywheel electronic typewriters. Both models are dual pitch, have…
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