The Minimal Complete Typewriter Collection
by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
Joe Van Cleave's personal six categories in a (his) typewriter collection:
- Standard manual
- medium-sized portable (largest segment in the collector's space)
- lightweight portable or ultra-portable
- typebar electric
- IBM Selectric
- Electronic typewriter (thermal typewriter), portable, quiet, battery operation.
Joe's minimal collection based on what he's got in his collection currently and the condition that they're in:
- Royal KMM (his only standard)
- Hermes 3000 (boxy middle era)
- Olympia Splendid 33 (he's also got a Royal Mercury & Groma Kalibri)
- Olympia Reporter
- Selectric I (the only one he's got) cloth, ribbon cartridge system, no lift-off correction
- Canon Typestar 220
Some of Joe's most important criteria in a typewriter: he prefers an elite face, 1 1/2 spacing, and bichrome setting.
At the time of this recording Joe had 30 typewriters.