Typewriter Revolution

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Typewriter Revolution

This is a community inspired by Richard Polt's The Typewriter Revolution. Let's discuss and share about typewriters, typewritten works, and celebrate these marvelous old pieces of technology.

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This image from Smith-Corona advertising during the 1960's is probably the earliest reference to the idea of the Type-In, the practice of gathering together with our typewriters and celebrating our machines and what we create with them.

Anyone been to a type-in? How was it?

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My 1968 Olympia SM9 (lemmy.world)
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Sharing a pic of my trusty typing machine. Mostly used for letters, some journaling, and occasionally poetry. It likes to tackle forms too. Still got that German precision. Here's under the hood: