Getty Scrimmages
I recently purchased a colour photograph of the late German screenwriter Herbert Lichtenfeld on eBay: “Herbert Lichtenfeld (16 June 1927 – 11 December 2001) was a German screenwriter known for his extensive contributions to German television, particularly in the crime genre.” “Born in Leipzig, Lichtenfeld began his screenwriting career in the late 1960s and became…
Back to Black
Not many models from either of Sharp’s PA-3100 series of portable electronic typewriters (two series were manufactured back-to-back) seem to have been sold new in Australia, the evidence for that being the small number of secondhand models I’ve come across in online listings over the years. (Come to think of it, electronic portables of any…
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…
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