The lid on this machine is from an SE 310 ... The lid slots into the upper rear vents of the machine and is secured by spring-loaded clips at the front. Apparently, the lid was an optional extra on all subsequent TA 3XX models, which had a soft vinyl cover as standard. TA's corporate colour … Continue reading Triumph-Adler SE 320
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Gabriele 8008
In the early days of the ET, "portability" meant you could stow your trusty machine inside a small suitcase and "lug it" between offices. Seen online, the Adler Gabriele 8008 looks bulky: As bulky, say, as its big brother, the SE-1005 standard daisy wheel electronic typewriter introduced in 1981: Or as bulky, say, as a … Continue reading Gabriele 8008
Finger Gymnastics
Maschinenschreiben Textverarbeitung (Typing and word processing) by Bruno Behne and Albert Titze, Ferd. Dummlers Verlag, 1991), is a German textbook about "typing and word processing on conventional writing machines and text systems, including personal computers". The book is basically a traditional typing practice and instruction book—one that's been updated to take into account the rise … Continue reading Finger Gymnastics
Adaptation
If you could pick an object that encapsulated the evolution of the typewriter from, say, the electromechanical era to the electronic, it might be something like this ... A Roytype ribbon cassette which allows an old style spooled ribbon to be used in an electronic wedge. It seems the plastic sleeve is only used as … Continue reading Adaptation
A Whole New Ball Game
Goodness gracious great balls o' type, who would have thought there were so many golf ball typewriter variants? IBM were keen to develop and maintain a strong presence in Japan (a case of keeping your friends close, and your enemies closer). It's hardly surprising then, that the most Selectric-like of all the Selectric clones is a … Continue reading A Whole New Ball Game
The Fifth Element
Good news: Searching on the French boule rather than the German kugelkopf, reaped the reward of my fifth interchangeable spherical print element or "golf ball"... The Fifth Element For some reason, getting my hands on a T-A Royal "golf ball" proved just as difficult as finding one of these ... The Fourth Element ~ This idiosyncratic fourth element … Continue reading The Fifth Element
Adler SE Series Electronic Typewriters
The 1983 Adler SE 1011 typewriter I picked up last week came with spare daisywheels and sales literature — not just about the SE 1011, but about the whole "SE 10XX" range of T-A business machines ... Note the salesman's scribbled price tag! A selection of ribbons were available, including fabric ribbons ... from my collection: ROYTYPE … Continue reading Adler SE Series Electronic Typewriters
The Daisy Shopper
I've mentioned this before, but if you want to buy a daisywheel for your obsolete '80s wedge, it's generally cheapest and easiest to buy another (compatible) obsolete '80s wedge ... IBM 6715 alongside an Adler SE 1011 (daisywheel donor machine) There was a time when I thought the '6715 was a big typewriter. That was before I got a Sharp ZX-500 … Continue reading The Daisy Shopper
Much Amis About Nothing
It's nice when you can associate a typewriter you have in your collection with a favourite author. Of course, many of us will buy a particular model of typewriter purely for the reason that such-and-such typed on one, as I did in the case of an Adler Universal 39 like the one used by Sir Kingsley Amis. Like his father, … Continue reading Much Amis About Nothing
