https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1uttoqn/what_do_you_use_your_typewriter_for_read_body/

Paper Review: Life Typewriter Paper<br /> by [[Ana Reinert]] – The Well-Appointed Desk accessed on 2026-07-10T17:17:27

Review, but of what really? The didn't bother with the ability to erase or how it looks with white out or similar cover ups. Ugh.

https://5forms.com/products/149-jetset-small-carbonless-memos-8-1-2-x-7

https://www.deluxe.com/shopdeluxe/pd/jetset-small-carbonless-memos/_/A-149

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vernissage

https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1304018145250290/

Singer Bonnie Tyler of 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' dies at 75<br /> by [[Mark Kennedy]] for AP News<br /> accessed on 2026-07-09T08:20:38

https://www.ribbonsfortypewriters.com/

According to Richard Polt, TB Writers Plus makes their own bulk ribbon.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DafbWAMx4xw/

Video of Fine Line's ribbon manufacturing machine.

Vintage Steel Tanker Furniture<br /> by [[Steel Santos]]<br /> accessed on 2026-07-08T11:36:15

Their location in Sherman Oaks has been closed for about 2 years via conversation with owner. (2026-07-07)

I Hate Modern Desks... So I Built This. by Morley Kert

Joe Van Cleave uses thin tin foil with a carbon to type onto paper as an experiment in the case that typewriter ribbon is no longer manufactured.

He find better imprints by placing additional backing sheets in front of his carbon paper, presumably because the pressure of the imprint is better.

Carbon Paper: The Future of Typing?<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]] on YouTube<br /> accessed on 2026-07-08T09:39:21

Carbonless copy paper<br /> by [[Wikipedia]]<br /> accessed on 2026-07-08T09:14:46

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1upt285/did_you_know_about_this_hidden_feature_on_the/

u/typercito has a 50s Royal Quiet De Luxe that is a parts machine if necessary.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ua62rl/comment/osohxex/?context=1&screen_view_count=2

How Netflix became the home of ‘cancelled’ comedians<br /> by [[Stephen Armstrong]]<br /> accessed on 2026-07-06T15:37:16

Louis C.K.’s new Netflix special is a master class in surviving so-called ‘cancellation’<br /> by [[Jacques Berlinerblau]]<br /> accessed on 2026-07-06T15:35:08

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1uo95me/what_is_the_most_functional_mechanical_typewriter/

Someone has used a spatula and spring feedback from the Hermes Ambassador's space bar to effectuate a power space functionality. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https://v.redd.it/4js8jq2snhbh1/HLSPlaylist.m3u8

Of interest, the power space on most of the Smith-Corona machines works exactly like this internally—they've just hidden the rectangular rubber "spatula" inside the right rear of the machine.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1uow243/just_in_case/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1uow243/just_in_case/

https://clickamericana.com/topics/science-technology/vintage-portable-manual-typewriters

The Smith-Coronas were offered in 4 different colors.

The Remington Quiet-Riter was eventually offered in white sand, desert sage, mist green, and French gray,

The Royal HH was offered in 6 colors including green, pink, and blue. Brown was the most ubiquitous.

Why bother with dozens of big standards in your office when you can have a portable or two that you can move and which are always in demand?

100% The Practical Magazine of Efficient Management, November 1916, Volume 7, No. 45, p49. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Management/hqj2SD6khL4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=corona&pg=RA4-PA49&printsec=frontcover

Origin of Royal's Vogue by [[x over it]]

Remington Quie- Riter Typewriter 1955

"students who use typewriters get up to 38% better grades."

"gives book reports and themes a professional look"

gendered sales technique - "girls particularly appreciate" the easy change ribbon system...

VINTAGE 1958 COMMERCIAL - REMINGTON RAND - QUIET WRITER TYPEWRITER w/FABULOUS FOUR

VINTAGE 1958 COMMERCIAL - REMINGTON RAND - OFFICE-RITER TYPEWRITER

Up to 10 carbons!<br /> Cuts clear, clean stencils 149.50 plus carrying case additional<br /> $1.50 a week payable monthly

Successful Secretary Presented by Royal Office Typewriters. A Thomas Craven Film Corporation Production, 1966. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If5b2FiDaLk.

Script: Lee Thuna<br /> Educational Consultant: Catharine Stevens<br /> Assistant Director: Willis F. Briley<br /> Design: Francisco Reynders<br /> Director & Producer: Carl A. Carbone<br /> A Thomas Craven Film Corporation Production

"Mother the mail"

gendered subservience

"coding boobytraps"

"I think you'll like the half sheet better. It is faster." —Mr. Typewriter, timestamp

A little bit of the tone of "HAL" from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). This is particularly suggestive as H.A.L. was a one letter increment from I.B.M. and the 1966 Royal 660 was designed to compete with IBM's Selectric

This calm voice makes suggestions to a secretary while H.A.L. does it for a male astronaut (a heroic figure of the time period). Suddenly the populace feels the computer might be a bad actor.

"We're living in an electric world, more speed and less effort."—Mr. Typewriter<br /> (techno-utopianism)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/4212771105411319/posts/27689793753949057/

oz.Typewriter: Portuguese Typewriter<br /> by [[Robert Messenger]]<br /> accessed on 2026-07-02T23:54:38

https://dynamicallytyped.org/figureshift

https://dynamicallytyped.org/ Site "released" on 2026-07-02<br /> via https://www.facebook.com/groups/4770669677/posts/10163825687234678

Antique/Vintage shops have a different market that isn't really "us" (collectors or enthusiasts with some baseline knowledge.) They're getting machines either at yard sales or house clean outs for $5-20 and marking them up for presentation long term in their stores until they can turn their profit. They'll rarely go less than 10-20% (in my experience) because they know that some sucker who knows nothing will come in and buy it. Most of their customers are buying things for display and not for actual use. They're also buying based on perceived value rather than solid research.

Generally I find that there is a "dead zone" for typewriters between $50 and $250. When you find one in this range it's almost always being sold by someone who has no idea how to use a typewriter, knows anything about the market, or what sort of condition a machine is actually in.

Often people may get their start by overpaying for a machine at an antique store, but then as they research how to use it they find out either they need to self-service it or that they need to take it to a repair shop. If it's the latter, they realize they ought to have bought a machine from the repair shop and they'd have come out far ahead. Based on my experience from type-ins, people are limping along using and putting up with some machines in pretty marginal condition.

reply to Ed Medina at https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10163822675949678/

reply to Ed Medina at https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10163822675949678/

Antique/Vintage shops have a different market that isn't really "us" (collectors or enthusiasts with some baseline knowledge.) They're getting machines either at yard sales or house clean outs for $5-20 and marking them up for presentation long term in their stores until they can turn their profit. They'll rarely go less than 10-20% (in my experience) because they know that some sucker who knows nothing will come in and buy it. Most of their customers are buying things for display and not for actual use. They're also buying based on perceived value rather than solid research.

Generally I find that there is a "dead zone" for typewriters between $50 and $250. When you find one in this range it's almost always being sold by someone who has no idea how to use a typewriter, knows anything about the market, or what sort of condition a machine is actually in.

Often people may get their start by overpaying for a machine at an antique store, but then as they research how to use it they find out either they need to self-service it or that they need to take it to a repair shop. If it's the latter, they realize they ought to have bought a machine from the repair shop and they'd have come out far ahead. Based on my experience from type-ins, people are limping along using and putting up with some machines in pretty marginal condition.

Karoline Leavitt’s Failed Campaign Makes Bleak Admission It Still Owes $300,000 in Debt<br /> by [[Will Neal]]<br /> accessed on 2026-07-02T10:31:05

https://torontotypewriters.com/products/keymaster-toolset-presale

Presale version for $216 versus $504 at Toronto Typewriters

https://mytypewriter.com/products/hello-qwerty-replacement-typewriter-keycard-legend

Tom Hansen has used these before: https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1310021417983296/

reply to u/Valuable_Discount_26 at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ullgmc/first_typewriter/

It all depends on how you want to practice your individual version of a typewriter hobby.

Some only have 2 or 3 typewriters. Others have hundreds they've thrifted for $20-30 each while others only buy refurbished machines for several hundreds from repair shops. Some collect inexpensive colorful machines from the 70s while others focus on the incredibly rare machines from the 1890s. Some (like me) get them for pennies on the dollar and lovingly refurbish and restore them. Some are content to stare longingly at a single rusty old Underwood they spent $450 on and have on the shelf as decor.

Some collectors only have portables because they're easy to stack while others prefer only machines over 50 pounds with ultra-wide platens. One or two strip them down to make sculpture. Some use a different machine every day to write to a typewriter pen pal. Some take them to baseball games to score what they're sure will be the winning home run. Others only collect typewriters of famous authors. A few only collect toy typewriters. At least one collects Barbie typewriters.

Some are Royal or Remington completists. Some are Olympia maximalists and others are Hermes minimalists. Some just watch movies and tv shows with typewriters in them. Some write articles about typewriters. A handful collect typewriter ribbon tins. Some are fulfilled collecting typewriter ads out of magazines and newspapers. Others study how typewriters impacted society while a select few practice forensic document analysis.

Some collect ephemera, others serial numbers and photos of machines they've found in the wild. Others have no machines and just compare all the specs and features for the day that they decide they've found their one and only holy grail so that they can spend $1,500+ on pure perfection. Others buy a machine or two and keep them for six months before re-homing them elsewhere and acquiring a new machine to replace it. Some have six typewriters sitting around the house for various uses. Some have them hiding in the walls, in their attics or basements and blissfully live their lives not knowing what they're missing out on. Others use their machines to write poetry or create zines.

A few run typewriter shops. Some write books about typewriters. Yet others read them. Some are typewriter academicians. A handful design and create 3-D replacement parts. A rare handful are typewriter-enablers who give away functioning typewriters to aspiring young writers. Some choose to host type-ins to hang out with other typewriter-y people. A few make YouTube videos about typewriters.

If there are N typewriter hobbyists in the world, I'm positive there are at least N+1 ways of having a typewriter hobby. Speaking of which, there is also the N+1 hobbyist who always knows that the next typewriter is going to better than all the rest.

Which sort of typewriter hobbyist do you imagine yourself to be? What sort will you become?

It all starts with the inexpensive dream of a typewriter...

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10163822244004678

https://garden.patsitive.co.nz/colophon/

“Masks, Identities & Cosplay” IndieWeb Carnival<br /> by [[Joe Crawford]]<br /> accessed on 2026-06-30T23:17:14

https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1306913431627428/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/user/1091748691/

The Holy Grail of Arthurian Manuscripts is for auction at Christie’s<br /> by [[Christopher Berard]] in Medievalists.net<br /> accessed on 2026-06-30T12:24:44

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/the-master-of-the-li-ge-apocalypse-6594748

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaDYDNLg8la/

For the long, dramatic close ups on soap operas at the end of a scene, one should use the time in various stages of thinking and reacting to the three ideas:<br /> - Did I leave the stove on? - I did leave the stove on. - No, I turned the stove off.

OlympiaSong

The Modernaires<br /> by [[Contributors to Wikimedia projects]]<br /> accessed on 2026-06-29T13:24:12

Artist: Four Chicks & Chuck<br /> by [[Second Hand Songs]]<br /> accessed on 2026-06-29T13:13:36

Olympia typewriter song [sound recording]. - Record details - Library of Congress Catalog <br /> accessed on 2026-06-29T13:10:26

See also: Olympia Typewriter Song

https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/typehood

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZSwHjyGgMz/

Cartoon typewriter depicted on the cover of House of Secrets, No. 18 (DC Comics)

https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/real.html

Some interesting typewriter hunters:<br /> - Joe Van Cleave<br /> - Richard Polt<br /> - Michael Hoehne<br /> - Robert Messenger - Ted Munk<br /> - Ian Brumfield - Sarah Everett (aka JustMyTypewriter) - Mei Travis<br /> - Currie Russell - Otto Koponen - Marcin Wichary<br /> - Martin Howard - James Grooms - Suzanne LaPierre - Chris Aldrich<br /> - Matt Watkins (Ignaciob) aka u/TC3Guy<br /> - Alexander Neff

Typewriter repair people: - Scott Connors<br /> - Elisa Makoon-Singh

https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ugjhg6/brooksaw_back_at_it_again/

Brooksaw Antiques purchased 1959 Olympia SM3 Script No. 75 on 2026-06-18 for $259.00 on eBay and relisted it, likely with almost no real work, on 2026-06-26 at eBay for $2,000.

Reduced by 20% days later to $1,600.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaIyqGBMxAL/

via u/Pete1885 at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ui9d7c/new_writing_desk_for_my_royal/

reply to u/psitaxx at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ui2vvo/does_it_even_count_as_a_second_typewriter_if_its/

You're right that sometimes 1+1 is not equal to two.

For example 1 pile of laundry plus 1 pile of laundry is still 1 pile of laundry (just bigger), or 1 cloud merging with 1 cloud is still 1 cloud (albeit a different cloud). Sadly this is not the case with typewriters. 1 typewriter plus another 1 typewriter is 2 typewriters.

According to typewriter collector Keanu Reeves, you don't have a collection yet. That happens when you have 3, something you could never accomplish unless the math worked in the standard way.

Would that 1 typewriter + 1 typewriter = 1 typewriter! Then my collection of well over 30 wouldn't bother my wife, and I could say that I only have 1 typewriter...

Of course I can commiserate with your mint condition typewriter conundrum. Sometimes there's nothing better than getting something in mint condition, but often we all have hopes that it's not mint for one reason or another. I too was disappointed by a recent $21.95 purchase of an Olympia in perfect condition. Perhaps, as Frank Navasky said in You've Got Mail (Warner Bros., 1998), "I needed a backup."

reply to u/Typed_Anew at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ug4q1i/any_information_on_thisa_repair_question/

There don't appear to be any examples in the typewriter database, so be sure to create an account and upload the data and photos you've got. https://typewriterdatabase.com/register-today.php (It's not every day someone gets to upload a new make/model!)

Similar machines and details: - Gundka https://typewriterdatabase.com/no_info.414.typewriter-serial-number-database - Frolio https://typewriterdatabase.com/no_info.415.typewriter-serial-number-database

By drilling down into the database and looking at pictures and descriptions of other models as well as looking at the galleries for specific examples, you may be able to troubleshoot what is missing or "off" on your machine (which is obviously missing the spools, though you may be able to fashion something similar to get yours working.)

Other examples via online search may be helpful as well: - https://www.glennsantiques.co.uk/shop/p/02/060/11 - https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-toy-typewriter-emg-dover-1000802769 - https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=EMG+Dover+Junior+typewriter&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313

Documenting your own example will make it much easier for collectors in the future.

Secrets to Remembering Names and Faces (1988 Harry Lorayne) (VHS Rip)<br /> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtrMtoxHGjI

Miroslav Šašek illustrations<br /> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav_%C5%A0a%C5%A1ek

https://www.golddustantiques.com/products/antique-german-oak-filing-cabinet-with-drop-down-doors-by-stolzenberg-1930s

Byles, R. B. 1911. The Card Index System; Its Principles, Uses, Operation, and Component Parts. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. http://archive.org/details/cardindexsystemi00bylerich (February 13, 2024).

Annotations<br /> Alternate annotations: urn:x-pdf:9c84c139e7502ca806dd83bfecf80c20

Read: 2026-06-23 to 06-26

R. B. Byles attributes the origin of the card index system to Europe, but provides no direct details or history.

Interesting section here on the state of the art of carbon copies of letters

To guard against an accidental upset of the drawer and its entire contents which in the absence of a rod

Card indexes and filing cabinets should have tray stops to help prevent pulling drawers out too quickly and losing all the file organization by dropping the drawer out on the floor.

There are generally two types of rods for a card index:<br /> - plain rod with round hole that typically needs to be removed to insert cards. These are useful for safety (and not dumping cards out) or losing them (esp. in public settings like a library. - flat rod (various forms) allows cards to be 'locked" or released easily for filing efficiency, especially valuable for business use. - no rod at all; by 1911 there were more easily moved follower blocks which helped to get rid of the necessity of rods at all, at least in Byles' estimation.

He's not using the traditional wording, but he's talking about the need for having "cards of equal size" for use in a card index here.

In the past, desks with a number of pigeon holes were used as part of one's database and organizational system. Once card indexes and filing cabinets came to the fore, these affordances of desks ultimately disappeared.

card systems are highly adaptable

the fact that one's notes can grow in any individual location by placing a new card between any two others is a supremely valuable affordance

A card (index) ledger desk

cost, freight, and insurance

what a phrase!

the mind is relieved from the strain of attempting to recollect innumerable details.

Similar to the idea of a Memindex which was contemporaneous.

Example of a follow up card for a business.

By signals, he means flags (perhaps colored) attached to an individual card to mean something specific for potential follow up, for example: a date or day of the week.

The card index system is certainly an early form of customer relationship management (CRM).

What are the 1-1 details that it has (as described in this book or Kaiser's) and modern versions? - contact information<br /> - detailed notes about interactions and history<br /> - follow up / reminder features<br /> - Others??

This may be done either by means of a follow-up cabinet

A similar disease can be seen in electronic tagging systems of some PKM people...

Byles lays out a consecutive numbering system for correspondence folders.

aka carbon copy via different technology

esp. note the idea of it being alive

begs the question of what "alive" means....

How does the "one-place" system work with respect to the idea of "multiple storage"?

What about cross-indexing?

In contrast to, for example, an address book which is not reorderable (easily).

HA!

I wonder where this trope started?

https://archive.org/details/RemingtonAstrologicalKeyboard

https://archive.org/details/RemingonLargeType

https://www.facebook.com/groups/4770669677/posts/10163746464174678/

https://oldbobsoldtypewriters.com/portfolio-item/1955-royal-quiet-de-luxe-blue/

Royal Quiet De Luxe in ankony Blue (AB)

Tom Hanks' quote about the Series 5 Smith-Corona typewriters https://youtu.be/AWfgpL1X_oE?si=-dA9HOQYXWv1w8wZ&t=5810

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/profile/100010168390545/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vabbing

vaginal dabbing = vabbing

reply to u/LowkeyHooligan at https://reddit.com/r/commonplacebook/comments/1gdpiis/space_for_a_commonplace/

I'm not talking about my specific practice but commonplacing and Zettelkasten writ large. Early users of slips in the tradition of ars excerpendi were commonplacing, they were just putting their excerpts onto slips (or scraps) of paper rather than in a notebook. Far too many think the idea of Zettelkasten was "invented" by Niklas Luhmann when in fact the tradition goes back to at least Konrad Gessner in the 16th century. There was absolutely nothing innovative about Luhmann's Zettelkasten—even his numbering system was widely used by the mid 1910s. Early Zettelkasten (aka card indexes in English) were commonplaces, just done on slips of paper rather than bound "slips" in book format.

The more recent "Zettelkasten Method" practitioners, (roughly after June 2013) have largely omitted the centuries-long intellectual history of their practice and are guilty of too much Luhmann worship. On the other hand, they hew heavily toward the minimalist approach and don't decorate their work with stickers, drawings, or other art which seems to have come into fashion in the social media era. This is what I would call "drolleries on acid" without the benefit of knowing about the tradition of ars memoria.

My practice with these goes well beyond commonplacing. Most early 20th century card indexes were used for a variety of purposes beyond commonplacing too including indexing, tickler files, databases, rolodexes, etc. What you're describing sounds more like my modified Memindex practice (https://boffosocko.com/2023/03/09/the-memindex-method-an-early-precursor-of-the-memex-hipster-pda-43-folders-gtd-basb-and-bullet-journal-systems/). You'll find more on my particular practice and the historical practices of others at: https://boffosocko.com/research/zettelkasten-commonplace-books-and-note-taking-collection/

For early 20th century uses, try: - Kaiser, Julius Otto. 1908. Card System at the Office. London: Vacher and Sons. http://archive.org/details/cardsystematoffi00kaisrich. - Kaiser, Julius Otto. 1911. Systematic Indexing. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. http://archive.org/details/systematicindexi00kaisuoft. - Duffield, David Walter, and Various. 1951. Progressive Indexing and Filing. 5th ed. New York, NY: Remington Rand Inc. http://archive.org/details/progressiveindex0000varo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier%27s_bones

NYT helped fuel trans controversy, analysis finds<br /> by [[Christopher Wiggins]] in The Advocate<br /> accessed on 2026-06-24T09:52:19

And how many individual readers are going to spend the time and effort to do this analysis. Rhoades Ha knows this and naturally pushes back when a particular reader happens to have done this analysis.

Trump Cancels Signing of Biggest Housing Affordability Bill in Decades<br /> by [[Malcolm Ferguson]] in The New Republic<br /> accessed on 2026-06-24T09:29:56

Why MAGA buys Trump’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool hoax - Salon.com<br /> by [[Amanda Marcotte]]<br /> accessed on 2026-06-24T08:47:31

Love that Marcotte makes the connection between Trump, the reflecting pool, and Narcissus.

If Trump spent even half the time on homelessness, poverty, or education as he has on this idiotic reflecting pool, America might be marginally better.

Todd Blanche hit with state bar complaint backed by 101 former judges<br /> by [[Steve Benen]]<br /> accessed on 2026-06-24T00:19:53

Top level categories in my notes<br /> by [[Richard Griffiths]] in Writing Slowly<br /> accessed on 2026-06-23T21:20:11

Trump may be mystery patient in odd case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug<br /> by [[Beth Mole]] in Ars Technica<br /> accessed on 2026-06-23T21:06:22

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/northjersey/name/donald-bolander-obituary?id=24573183

Founded Career Institute and edited several of their books on English, spelling, synonyms, antonyms, etc.

See also:<br /> - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-drives-across-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-to-inspect-blue-coating-hes-adding <br /> - https://apnews.com/article/trump-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-blue-visit-214814ea23ae9412093167e49bbc20e8?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

Trump Gave Out a No-Bid Contract to Turn D.C.’s Reflecting Pool Blue<br /> by [[David A. Fahrenthold]], [[Luke Broadwater]] in The New York Times<br /> accessed on 2026-06-23T11:12:35

Did driving across the Reflecting Pool cause the damage Trump is saying was vandalism?!?

https://raymondsofficemachinesandsupplies.com/<br /> Darwin Raymond, Raymond's Office Machines, 927 Grand Ave., Glenwood Springs, CO 81601. (970) 945-5872.

See also:<br /> - https://coloradosun.com/2019/04/24/vintage-typewriters-glenwood/ - https://gazette.com/life/from-underground-typewriters-rise-thanks-to-man-and-bird-colorful/article_c9bfab92-3ed1-11ea-8113-77af98cc4fa2.html

https://www.si.edu/object/archives/sova-nmah-ac-0260<br /> Railway Express Agency Records<br /> American History Museum

Celebrating Typewriter Day 2026 on a WORKING 1887 Hall (Salem) Typewriter <br /> by Dynamically Typed (aka Joel Berger)<br /> via https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1udalhf/comment/otd01ki/