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Looks pretty, but in the end it won't be as highly functional as it looks pretty. I'd rather have a mahogany card index. Dollars to donuts this doesn't actually launch.
Reminiscent to Ugmonk's Analog System: https://ugmonk.com/collections/analog
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Solomon Golomb (1932–2016)<br /> by [[Stephen Wolfram]] in blog: Stephen Wolfram Writings<br /> accessed on 2025-09-11T10:44:18
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(I’m happy to have made at least one contribution to Beatrice’s life: introducing her to her husband, now of 26 years, Terry Sejnowski, one of the founders of modern computational neuroscience.)
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“Beatrice’s Law”, that “everything in biology is more complicated than you think, even taking into account Beatrice’s Law”.
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Schrödinger, Erwin. What Is Life? With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Originally published in 1944 based on lectures delivered under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, in February 1943
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THE RELATION BETWEEN CLOCKWORK ANDORGANISM
historical evidence of the scientific shift from Newtonian clockwork physics into an underlying statical mechanical one
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DelbruckJs Model Discussed and Tested
n.b. Delbrück was Jim Watson’s postdoc advisor at Caltech
see also:<br /> Golomb, Solomon W. Construction and Properties of Comma-Free Codes. With L. R. Welch and Max Delbrück, København, 1958. Biologiske Meddelelser Udg. Af Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 23.
Golomb, S. W., et al. “Comma-Free Codes.” Canadian Journal of Mathematics, vol. 10, Jan. 1958, pp. 202–09. Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.4153/CJM-1958-023-9.
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Date Section <br /> 9/16/25 What is Life? Preface, Chapter 1<br /> 9/23 Chapter 2<br /> 9/30 Chapter 3<br /> 10/7 Chapter 4<br /> 10/14 Chapter 5<br /> 10/21 Chapter 6<br /> 10/28 Chapter 7<br /> 11/4 Epilogue<br /> 11/11 Mind and Matter Chapter 1<br /> 11/18 Chapter 2<br /> 11/25 BREAK<br /> 12/2 Chapter 3 + 4<br /> 12/9 Chapter 5<br /> 12/16 Chapter 6
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Book Review : Scientist Obscured by His Achievements - Los Angeles Times<br /> by [[Lee Dembart]] in Los Angeles Times 1988-10-04 <br /> accessed on 2025-09-11T10:29:10
proper balance between a person's life and their contributions to the world is a difficult matter
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It was Delbruck who turned biology to the study of molecules rather than whole organisms, a commonplace notion today that was revolutionary 50 years ago.
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Why Who Did What When<br /> by [[Solomon Golomb]] in American Scientist<br /> accessed on 2025-09-11T10:22:57
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My own assessment is that the book, which reads like a thoroughly researched legal brief (more than 100 pages are devoted to notes, references and a very detailed index), makes the best possible case for the highly dubious proposition that the ideas of information theory influenced the substance, rather than merely the rhetoric, of research in molecular biology in the 1950s and 1960s.
Information theorist Solomon Golomb, who directly participated in the applications of information theory to early genetics, doesn't feel that it influenced the substance of molecular biology in the 1950s and 1960s though it may have influenced the rhetoric.
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Charlie Kirk, a prominent conservative activist and Trump ally, dies after shooting at Utah campus event<br /> by [[Eric Bradner]] for CNN Politics<br /> accessed on 2025-09-10T14:25:30
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Live updates: Charlie Kirk killed at Utah Valley University event<br /> by [[Elise Hammond]], [[Maureen Chowdhury]], [[Aditi Sangal]], [[Dalia Faheid]], [[Elizabeth Wolfe]], [[Tori B. Powell]] for CNN accessed on 2025-09-10T14:19:55
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asphaltum, a component of traditional black 'japanning' is known to fluoresce
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ncuci4/the_1920_lc_smith_no_8_glows_why_does_it/
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A Thousand Videos! - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-08T08:29:48
A short retrospective of his videos as well as a quick overview of the technology he's used over the years.
DaVinci Resolve for editing now after years of iMovie.
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Writing Bad Day at Black Rock: A Talk with Millard Kaufman<br /> by [[Tod Lippy]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-07T17:40:08
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When you were under contract at MGM, were you writing longhand and then giving it to a transcriber? Yeah. My secretary. It’s almost as though I swore once I got out of the newspaper business that I’d never look at another goddam typewriter. I like writing with a pen. As a matter of fact, I think the less distance there is between you and a piece of blank paper, the better it works out.
https://www.todlippy.com/writing/interviews/bad-day-black-rock
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Millard Kaufman papers, Collection no. 2258, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern California. https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:%2F13030%2Fc81n87gk
Box 4 contains notecards with notes about the films "Beau Geste," "Raintree County," and "Reprieve," as well as a paperback copy of the novel "Beau Geste." https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:%2F13030%2Fc81n87gk_aspace_5b86d4b8e8a1ee9992ac6f15f3cefe30
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A slide illustrating the six different types of abundance. …What are we even doing here, y’all? (h/t Dave Weigel)
Types of abundance via @ruthgracewong: - red plenty - cascadian - liberal - moderate-abundance synthesis - abundance dynamism - dark abundance
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The term is rapidly becoming an empty signifier, though. Tesla’s new master plan boasts of “sustainable abundance.” The Silicon Valley variant of the abundance agenda is just warmed-over techno-optimism — less “let’s rebuild the administrative state and make government work again!” and more “the government should hand big sacks of money to tech startups and exempt them from taxes and regulations. Let our genius builders build!”
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Government ought to be both proactive and responsive. And often the best way to make a better future possible is to devote public money towards promoting public goods.
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What Isn't Abundance?<br /> by [[Dave Karpf]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-06T08:42:21
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They had parties, we got the hangover<br /> by [[Ruth Sunderland]] for The Guardian<br /> accessed on 2025-09-06T12:17:48
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Gignac, Gilles E. “The Number of Exceptional People: Fewer than 85 per 1 Million across Key Traits.” Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 234, Feb. 2025, p. 112955. ScienceDirect, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2024.112955.
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Tett, Gillian. Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life. Simon and Schuster, 2021. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Anthro_Vision/p_kDEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
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Tao, Terence. “What Is Good Mathematics?,” February 13, 2007. http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702396.
Variations of this can also be applied to other fields, like history. What makes good history, good historians, good history teachers, etc.?
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Wilson, Georgina. Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025, https://www.pennpress.org/9781512827446/paper-and-the-making-of-early-modern-literature/.
Related to the idea of paper helping, as a technology, create modernity.
See also Roland Allen's The Notebook (2023)
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Brown, John Seely, and Paul Duguid. “A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists.” 2000. Emerging Technologies: Ethics, Law and Governance, by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, edited by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, 1st ed., Routledge, 2020, pp. 65–71.
via: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188_W16/Reprints/Response_to_BillJoy.pdf
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A reprint of: <br /> - “Re-Engineering the Future: A Response to Bill Joy and the doom-and-gloom technofuturists,” The Industry Standard, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. 24 April 2000, p.196. - “A Response to Bill Joy and the Doom-and-Gloom Technofuturists,” AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001, edited by Albert H. Teich, Stephen D. Nelson, Celia McEnaney and Stephen J. Lita, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001.
Cross reference: Bill Joy's paper and notes at urn:x-pdf:753822a812c861180bef23232a806ec0
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Reprints available at: - Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” 2000. AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook 2001, edited by Albert H. Teich et al., Amer Assn for the Advancement of Science, 2002, pp. 47–75. Google Books, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Integrity_in_Scientific_Research/0X-1g8YElcsC.<br /> - Joy, Bill. “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” 2000. Emerging Technologies: Ethics, Law and Governance, by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, edited by Gary E. Marchant and Wendell Wallach, 1st ed., Routledge, 2020, pp. 65–71.
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Utopians presume theadvent of abundance not because it will be affordable, but because itwill be free, provided we accept surveillance.
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Olympia SM series (part 1, 1948-1964)<br /> by [[x over it]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-05T17:14:33
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Eaton Fire updates: New photos appear to show start of deadly Los Angeles fire as DOJ files lawsuits against SoCal Edison - ABC7 Los Angeles<br /> by [[Josh Haskell]]<br /> accessed on 2025-09-05T14:53:04
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did she also recall the opening line of the novel Snoopy never did get to finish? “It was a dark and stormy night ….” Time didn’t allow me to explain that this was not actually a Snoopy original. The celebrated incipit was dognapped by Snoopy’s creator, Charles M. Schulz, from Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, a mid-19th century English novelist, poet, playwright and politician who also coined phrases such as “the great unwashed”, “pursuit of the almighty dollar” and “the pen is mightier than the sword”.
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents – except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
The incipit line of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1830 novel Paul Clifford.
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New ribbons should look wet and get your fingers a bit inky when you touch them, but shouldn't be dripping ink. I've certainly bought new ribbon that was on the dry side and needed to return it. https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-faq.html#q1
Beyond this, your machine may need a ring and cylinder adjustment. Check YouTube for this. Most platens now are typically rock hard and have shrunken a bit, so recovering the platen is always helpful. You can use a backing sheet or two as a stopgap if necessary, but a new platen and proper adjustment will make a world of difference.
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Collectability in typewriters is different for almost everyone. I like mid-century standards, some only like pre-1900 machines, some red typewriters, some toy typewriters, some less common typefaces, and still others prefer plastic 70s portables. Some treat them like Pokémon and "gotta catch them all".
Typewriters as a whole are all "collectibles"... What is your specific definition and criteria (value, rarity, popularity, etc.)?
In aggregate, knowledgeable pricing may help you determine the most collectible ranking them by most expensive. But by this ranking there aren't many of us who can buy even a single Sholes and Glidden or collect the typewriters of famous authors like Steve Soboroff.
ETC Magazine did a rarity versus desirability survey a while back of some serious collectors: https://www.antikeychop.com/mostwantedtypewriters
Interestingly, on this list you won't find many of the most collected typewriters out there as ranked by general "popularity" including machines like the Hermes 3000 or the Olympia SM3.
The Typewriter Database also has some data (albeit skewed) of the most "popular" machines ranked based on how many examples have been uploaded by collectors: https://typewriterdatabase.com/popular.0.typewriter-models
All these rankings are highly subjective though, so, again, you should figure out what's most interesting to you and create your collection from there. Figuring this out is half the fun of doing this as a hobby.
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Maybe we will look it over at the next SoCal type-in.
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1n5ytpl/yet_another_typeface_inquiry/
u/HumorPuzzleheaded407 is in/near SoCal
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Both Baco Ribbon and Fine Line offer black/red bichrome ribbon in most of these materials for an incredibly reasonable price:
- nylon ribbon $0.10 - $0.15/yard
- silk ribbon $0.33 to $0.40/yard
- cotton ribbon $0.25/yard
If you're going to buy even 3-6 spools of ribbon at individual prices of $9-20 per spool, you may as well make the investment in a half or full reel of inked typewriter ribbon and save yourself a lot of hassle. This will bring your spool of ribbon price down into the $2-4 range.
Ribbons Unlimited is great, but their prices on most ribbon is comparatively really high because part of what they're selling you is the information about which spools will fit your machine. This is fine if you get a typewriter without spools at all, but if you've got original spools, you can get really great ribbon for a fraction of the price and spool it onto your extant spools.
reply to https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1n58ivm/working_on_my_first_restoration_royal_arrow/
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Use case for the Zettelkasten | Writing Slowly<br /> by [[Richard Griffiths]] <br /> accessed on 2025-08-30T23:59:42
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I found a way to create order from my jumbled ideas | Writing Slowly<br /> by [[Richard]] on writingslowly.com <br /> accessed on 2025-08-30T19:54:37
The structure of SOLO reminds me of the relationship of Bloom's Taxonomy and zettelkasten: https://boffosocko.com/2022/04/01/the-zettelkasten-method-of-note-taking-mirrors-most-of-the-levels-of-blooms-taxonomy/
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Leibniz created a haystack of notes that wouldn't fit in his Zettelschrank<br /> by [[writingslowly.com]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-30T19:27:07
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Krajewski’s recent chapter “Intellectual Furniture: Elements of a Deep History of Artificial Intelligence.” sets Leibniz’s endeavours in the context of an intellectual history that stretches from the specialised furniture Leibniz acquired to arrange his notes, via the dawn of the computer age, all the way to the recent rise of artificial intelligence.
I love the idea of "intellectual furniture" though I've seen it in negative contexts before. Compare also with "books as wallpaper".
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What comes after Roam's renaissance? — LessWrong<br /> by [[Itay Dreyfus]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-30T23:55:03
came to via: https://writingslowly.com/2025/08/24/use-case-for-the-zettelkasten.html
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Buying a New Typewriter - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-29T18:33:40
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ABQ Museum Type In - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]] <br /> accessed on 2025-08-29T18:30:27
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Malthus and Wells—and now Joy—are, indeed, critical parts ofthese complex loops. Each knew when and how to sound the alarm.But each thought little about how to respond to that alarm.
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While many powerful national corporations have grown insignifi-cant, some have transformed into more powerful transnational firms.While some forms of community may be dying, others, bolstered bytechnology, are growing stronger.
What do the shapes and sizes in these networks tell us about potential outcomes?
How are these changes created? How are the outcomes and shapes different?
Can we put a mathematical "measure" on them? What do the (topological) "neighborhoods" look like before and after?
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One of the lessons of Joy’s article, then, is that the path to the futurecan look simple (and sometimes downright terrifying) if you look at itthrough what we call “6-D lenses.” We coined this phrase having sooften in our research hit up against upon such “de-” or “di-” words asdemassification, decentralization, disintermediation, despacialization,disaggregation and demarketization in the canon of futurology.If you take any one of these words in isolation, it’s easy to followtheir relentless logic to its evident conclusion.
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Why does the threat of a cunning, replicating robot society look soclose from one perspective, yet so distant from another? The differencelies in the well-known tendency of futurologists to count “1, 2, 3 . . . amillion.” That is, once the first step on a path is taken, it’s very easy toassume that all subsequent steps are trivial.
1, 2, 3, ... profit also follows this general pattern and some companies like Uber, Lyft, Postmates, etc. have found this difficult to do.
Tesla is another example which seems to fit the profile of this piece with respect to Elon Musk having pissed off the very people he was attempting to sell to.
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Having ignored social concerns, however, proponents havemade the people they need to educate profoundly suspicious and hostile.
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But, on the otherhand, social systems—in the form of governments, the courts, formaland informal organizations, social movements, professional networks,local communities, market institutions and so forth—shape, moderateand redirect the raw power of technologies.
I find myself reading this from the perspective not so much of technology, but of these social systems which seem to be being stressed right now. Is it the technologists (Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, etc.) who realize that these systems were part of the technology "problem" in the past and now they've figured out a way to attempt to "capture" people to organize their original ends?
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In Joy’s vision, as in the nuclear one, there’s a recognizable tunnelvision that leaves people out of the picture and focuses on technologyin splendid isolation.
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Similar social forces are at work on technologies today. But becausethe digerati, like technoenthusiasts before them, look to the future withtechnological tunnel vision, they too have trouble bringing other forcesinto view.
great reminder in both technology and politics
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Like the nuclearprognosticators, Joy can see the juggernaut clearly. What he can’t see—which is precisely what makes his vision so scary—are any controls.
This observation is important in so many areas of life and research. It's not what you see in aggregate or on the surface, but the details below the surface which help to determine the second, third, and later-order effects.
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Sowhen his article describes a technological juggernaut thundering towardsociety—bringing with it mutant genes, molecular-level nanotechnologymachines and superintelligent robots—all need to listen.
These things can only kill us if we don't manage to kill ourselves first...
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Smith Corona Electric Portable Typewriter Dual Belt Replacement using O rings - YouTube<br /> by [[Phoenix Typewriter]] <br /> accessed on 2025-08-28T12:05:
o-ring replacements for Smith-Corona typewriters<br /> www.torkdistributors.com<br /> Filter O-ring replacements<br /> W34-OR 152030 <br /> 4.125" diameter
also could try Culligan OR-34 versions
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Royal Century - Silver Seiko Typewriter Review - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-28T11:37:07
Broadly a review of the Royal Century made by Silver-Seiko, but he also compares the performance with the Hermes Rocket/Baby and the Smith-Corona Skyriter, which he feels aren't as solid as the Century despite their lighter weight and portability.
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Avoiding Internal Typewriter Distractions - YouTube<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]] <br /> accessed on 2025-08-28T11:08:56
Typewriter distractions<br /> - troublesome mechanical issues<br /> - need for finger strength - poor imprint
Well-tuned standard typewriters are excellent for minimizing distractions, especially internal ones.
Joe Van Cleave thinks the 5TE Smith-Corona electric typewriters are the best of their class.
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Royal standards have the shift lock further away from the letter "a" which can prevent the accidental shifting of the letter "a" while typing. This distraction can be annoying when writing at speed.
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Buying a Bad Typewriter: Project IBM (part 1) - YouTube<br /> by Sarah Everett at [[Just My Typewriter]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-28T00:11:36
A small sampling of what you're in for with respect to IBM typewriter repair.
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Reviewing the We R Memory Keepers Typecast Typewriter! - YouTube<br /> by Sarah Everett for [[Just My Typewriter]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-27T23:14:56
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https://www.etsy.com/listing/1505097692/antique-1921-meads-file-index-corrective<br /> Antique 1921 Mead's File Index Corrective Diets Infants Nursing Weight Charts Mead card index geared toward health of infants with details, nursing patterns, growth data, feeding data, case history, etc.
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'Breathes there the man' by Sir Walter Scott<br /> by [[Sir Walter Scott]] in Scottish Poetry Library<br /> from ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’, Canto sixth<br /> accessed on 2025-08-25T11:04:25
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The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.
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The Smith Corona Five Series (why i love them!) - YouTube<br /> by [[Just My Typewriter]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-25T10:35:08
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The idea of using abstract spaces in a systematic fashion goes backto M. Frechet (1906)1 and is justified by its great success.
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Kreyszig, Erwin. Introductory Functional Analysis with Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1978.
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OBC28 4<br /> by [[Dan Allosso]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-23T18:00:08
Last session for The Notebook by Rolan Allen
https://danallosso.substack.com/p/notebook-book-club-meeting-4
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https://www.marginnote.com/<br /> Note taking application with audio recording
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It's an Olivetti Valentine. An iconic piece of design with mechanicals almost identical to the Lettera 32. Its designer, Ettore Sotsass, was apparently not fond of it ("I worked as an architect for sixty years of my life and all people know is this fucking plastic machine" - or something to that effect) and its first production run was not particularly popular.
source for this?? interesting, if true
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1mxxqkl/dieter_rams_typewriter_model/
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Given your area, if you haven't found it yet, you might appreciate going a generation further back in your references with: Mary P. Follett. Dynamic Administration: The Collected Papers of Mary Parker Follett, ed. by E. M. Fox and L. Urwick (London: Pitman Publishing, 1940). She had some interesting work in organization theory you might appreciate. Wikipedia can give you a quick overview. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Parker_Follett#Organizational_theory
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Note on how chatgpt fails John Dickerson<br /> by [[John Dickerson]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-23T08:54:37
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Opinion : AI Writing Disclosures Are a Joke. Here’s How to Improve Them.<br /> by [[Yasha Hartberg]] August 15, 2025
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Whether you log your work with a notebook, a version control app, or a folder full of drafts, the goal is the same: make the writing process traceable.
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It’s that they flatten the chaotic, recursive, very human writing process into something tidy and mechanical.
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Lanier, J. (2013). Who Owns the Future? Simon & Schuster. https://amzn.to/3YzotPZ
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Amazon is shutting down its Android app store next weekl<br /> by [[Nickolas Diaz]] for Android Central<br /> accessed on 2025-08-18T18:57:29
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John Malone, Barry Diller, Mike Fries and David Zaslav Set for Rare Public Conversation at Paley Center for Media<br /> by [[Giana Levy]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-18T16:45:37
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L.A. fires led to more than 400 additional deaths, study finds<br /> by [[Sara Moniuszko]] for CBS News<br /> accessed on 2025-08-18T09:53:22
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Themed logs are still more useful than daily notes<br /> by [[Eleanor Konik]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-18T09:19:49
On ordering notes in particular ways. Presumably search and indexing are the important factors here, but potentially also has something to say about context and the immediacy of neighborhoods.
Personal preference may be the biggest determination.
She focuses on where she'll search for things rather than indexing them where they start and then searching and concatenating them later (or digitally).
She uses the "everything has it's place" idea to commonplace more traditionally (or at least in an Obsidian digital context).
She also tangentially touches on the idea of where to place the work when taking notes. Toss it into a pile or deal with it now and the work it may take to clean up later.
Some interesting and potentially useful idiosyncratic evidence here, but nothing new or earth shattering.
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The State of the Culture, 2024<br /> by [[Ted Gioia]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-18T08:53:09
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Many creative people think these are the only options—both for them and their audience. Either they give the audience what it wants (the entertainer’s job) or else they put demands on the public (that’s where art begins).
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“The United States has a chance to do something that should have been done decades ago,” Trump said on April 7. “Don’t be weak! Don’t be stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN. (A new party based on weak and stupid people). Be strong, courageous, and patient, and greatness will be the result!”
What Is a Panican? White House Revives Trump Insult<br /> by [[Rebecca Schneid]] in TIME<br /> accessed on 2025-08-18T08:43:24
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Things Aren’t Going Donald Trump’s Way - The Atlantic<br /> by [[Jonathan Lemire]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-18T08:39:4
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The moment came in May, when CNBC’s Megan Cassella asked Trump about “TACO,” an acronym for “Trump always chickens out.” The phrase had gained popularity in the financial sector as a derisive shorthand for the president’s penchant for backing down from his tariff threats. During an otherwise routine Oval Office event, Trump sputtered angrily at Cassella, claiming that his shifting tariff timelines were “part of negotiations” and admonishing, “Don’t ever say what you said.”
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Olympia SG Typewriter Platen Knob Shaft Bent, Repaired, Straightened<br /> by [[Duane Jensen]] of [[Phoenix Typewriter]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-18T08:17:57
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The Seeker's Library<br /> by [[Zubair’s Bookshelf]] <br /> accessed on 2025-08-16T15:10:46
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Things I Never Knew about my Father by Lisa Jardine<br /> https://soundcloud.com/conwayhall/things-i-never-knew-about-my
See also: https://web.archive.org/web/20141216103656/http://www.conwayhall.org.uk/lisa-jardine
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Gramsci′s Common Sense<br /> by [[Kate Crehan]]
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What brings you trolling back, then?<br /> by [[Colin Richardson]] in The Guardian accessed on 2025-08-15T14:24:32
archival copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20120103154030/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jan/17/gayrights.comment
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Polari flourished in the difficult years between the trial of Oscar Wilde and the 1967 Sexual Offences Act. It was a kind of code, which enabled one gay man to identify another, allowed them to express themselves publicly without fear of arrest or reprisal and provided a vocabulary for talking about gay sex and sexuality.
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Glossary: troll back, to return; nish, no more; aunt nells, ears; naff, straight, tasteless; ogle, eye; dolly, nice, pleasant; eek , face - a contraction of the backslang ecaf; cod , bad, fake; zhoosh, to titivate; drag, clothing, a special outfit; dish, attractive, to gossip or bum; trade, sexual partner; colin, horn, erection; fantabulosa, fantabulosa.
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The radio comedy sketch show, Round the Horne, introduced two regular characters, Julian and Sandy, who spoke a version of polari.
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Many polari words are recognisable: aqua, manjaree, vada, bona, omi, even polari itself. You can probably guess at their meanings: water, food or to eat, look or see, good, man, and talk.
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THE SEX DIARIES OF JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES<br /> by [[Evan Zimroth]] in More Intelligent Life accessed on 2025-08-15T12:20:39
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By the way, the next time you "cold-call" someone, looking for a positive outcome, you are speaking Polari.
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Polari, or "The Lost Language of Gay Men" as Paul Baker has it in his wonderfully readable lexicon of that name, is the secret parlance through which gay men secretly communicated with each other during most of the 20th century.
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It depends in my opinion. Many variables with this company and what you seek as well as preferences. Do you want a three bank typewriter? I would go with an Erika 2 for a three bank typewriter. Do you want a more modern typewriter? Perhaps an Erika 10 is a good choice. Do you want a certain font? Maybe Fraktur? (Good luck finding one for cheap however) Erika 5 would be a good choice for fonts maybe. Do you want a rare and collectable model? Go with an Erika 20. They have basket shift too. I would personally avoid the newer models, such as the Erika 50. They aren't great in my preference, but you decide! There are many different models for different people, but the main company that produced Erikas, which is Seidel & Naumann, also created the "Ideal" brand of typewriters. S&N is responsible for a lot of typewriters.
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1mqcu0f/erika_typewriters_i_am_looking_to_potentially_get/<br /> via LeSwiss1886
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Capped Mechanical Pencils: Who Did It Better, Pentel Sharp Kerry or Uni Kuru Toga Dive?<br /> by [[The Gentleman Stationer]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-13T09:52:42
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Over time, dust and oil can clog up in the bearing and along the track that the segment glides up and down on causing this sort of issue. You can flush it out with mineral spirits (or something similar) while you actuate the shift key to remedy the issue. When you're done, then add back a drop of light (sewing) machine oil.
While you're at it, most basket shift machines load them with large springs to assist with the weight and to help the return. They're typically attached to metal brackets that can be easily formed with pliers to either increase or decrease the force as necessary to suit your touch and preferred response. (YouTube videos may help here if necessary.)
If that doesn't remedy it, then take the hood off and look closely at the mechanism to see if something is physically impeding it.
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Dirgelwch y Bedd Heb Gorff |<br /> by [[Jimmy Johnson]] for [[S4C]] accessed on 2025-08-13T00:11:28 Uncovering Secrets of a Pembrokeshire Cemetery | TheWelshViking | S4C - YouTube
gwylnos (night watch) - similar to an Irish wake
hirwen-gwd - tradition of wrapping a body in a white shroud and using a rope to raise and lower them in the chimney
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Ydw i’n ddigon Cymreig i fod yn yr Eisteddfod?<br /> by [[Israel Lai]] Am I Welsh Enough? 2025 - YouTube
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Newsom says California will draw new electoral maps after Trump ‘missed’ deadline<br /> by [[Guardian staff]] in The Guardian<br /> accessed on 2025-08-12T22:38:41
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Know historical users of the Royal KHM included:<br /> - William Faulkner<br /> - David McCullough<br /> - Al Neuharth<br /> - Mickey Spillane<br /> - Dalton Trumbo<br /> - Frank Lloyd Wright<br /> - L. Ron Hubbard
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The X mostly just means it has 2 extra keys (1/! and =/+).
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It's probably a subtle difference, but is this machine provide the standard 6 lines per vertical inch or due to the taller ascenders/descenders is it a 4 lines per vertical inch machine?
If you need a "name" for this machine, I might suggest "Satchmo". In doing some research on Louis Armstrong's 5 series Smith Corona, I'm pretty sure his 5 series also had this same vertical script. None of the features on any of the photos I could find of his machine are subtle enough to distinguish which particular model of Smith-Corona he was using. If we find a good direct photo of the machine itself, I'm sure I could puzzle out which version he used. By 1955 he had at least one machine with a script face (see: https://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/virtual-exhibits/my-fifty-fifth-birthday-celebration-happy-birthday-louis-armstrong/). It doesn't appear to be Smith-Corona's common Script (Artistic) No. 75 , but more like Script No. 46. Based on a version of this photo (https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/presto/2019/07/15/USAT/d815dddc-c0b8-4c54-b9b5-719886d4a0cc-02_Armstrong_Louis_16.jpg?width=1292&height=1320&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp) it would seem that it's the Smith-Corona that was the script machine (as opposed to his earlier Remington).
According to Ted Munk's post on the S-C Vertical script: "Smith Corona is offering the [vertical] typeface as 'Script No. 46', 10 Pitch by 1954."
Joe's video of his 1952 Smith-Corona this with the same vertical script https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH6mwmoN_LI
See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1mo4wbg/what_typewriter/
Somewhat interesting that Louis Armstrong played cornet, wrote on a Smith-Corona, and lived in the Corona neighborhood of Queens, NY.
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Ray Bradbury's Rules to Writing: Don't Think!<br /> accessed on 2025-08-12T09:45:59
"...you must never think at the typewriter, you must feel." —Ray Bradbury
This also cleverly goes against the idea that "writing is thinking". Bradbury frames it as "writing is feeling" or "writing is being."
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It came in a nice condition, black leatherette-covered hard wooden case, with the original brush, an owner's manual in French, a typing instruction booklet in English and a cardboard "instant typing chart" made to fit between the 3rd and 4th rows of keys in order to help in learning the touch-typing method.
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It is a beautiful blue SG 1 equipped with the special wide feet for an extra-wide 620 mm or 880 mm platen.
https://typewriterdatabase.com/1963-olympia-sg1.16258.typewriter
Wide feet for large platens on a heavy standard typewriter!
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Great Book of Western World 10 Years Reading Plan<br /> by [[zhex.dev]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-09T10:50:17
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The Symbolic Condom: Why Depression and Anxiety Create Stories, but ADHD doesn’t<br /> by [[Lastrevio]] on Aug, 2025 | Medium accessed on 2025-08-09T10:46:42
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https://www.gwales.com/bibliographic/?isbn=9781789651850<br /> The Mab by Matt Brown (bilingual editions)
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The following were the available Olympia type sizes as listed in the 1964 NOMDA Blue Book:
- 10 pitch (2.6 m/m) pica
- 11 pitch (2.3 m/m) elite
- 12 pitch (2.1 m/m) elite
- 17 pitch (1.5 m/m, calculated)
Not in the NOMDA Blue Book, but found in the wild on a 1971 Olympia SG-3: - 6 pitch (4.2 m/m) with typeface: Basic Writing No. 67
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Almost every day here there's at least one person asking where they can find new ribbon.
There is a seemingly a lot of talk here and on the web about re-inking typewriter ribbon, but the majority of it stems from the fact that people don't see new ribbon in the wild and assume that it isn't made anymore and thus the only way to type is to re-ink it. While it can be done it's a lot of work and effort with modest results and tends to be far more expensive and messy than it's worth in the end. Beyond this, it takes some research to find appropriate types of ink. You can also find advice about re-wetting old ribbon with WD-40 to "rejuvenate" it, but that process is also a lot of work and mess with poor results. Unless you really have to, I don't recommend reinking or rejuvenating.
Fortunately new typewriter ribbon is easily obtainable and is very inexpensive and easy enough to spool onto your already existing spools after you've removed the old ribbon. Even Tom Hanks has a video about putting ribbon on your typewriter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBbsNKaVAB0 Scores of similar videos exist covering various makes and models of typewriter, but the process doesn't have a lot of variability.
Both Baco Ribbon and Fine Line offer black/red bichrome ribbon in most of these materials for a very reasonable price per yard, in the range of:
- nylon ribbon $0.10 - $0.15/yard
- silk ribobn $0.33 to $0.40/yard
- cotton ribbon $0.25/yard
Most machines with 2 inch diameter spools will take from 18-22 yards of ribbon while ultra-portables with smaller spools will do 12-16 yards.
If you're going to buy even 3-6 spools of ribbon at individual prices of $9-20 per spool, you may as well make the investment in a half or full reel of inked typewriter ribbon and save yourself some expense.
Other purveyors exist including those listed at: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-faq.html#q1
If you really must, search Amazon or Etsy for smaller shops with larger mark ups on typewriter ribbon.
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Portable Typewriters Today - February 2015<br /> by [[Will Davis]] on 2015-02-10<br /> accessed on 2025-08-05T16:35:48
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IRS head says free Direct File tax service is ‘gone’ | The Verge<br /> by [[Emma Roth]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-05T15:49:42
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Jane Austen lives on<br /> by [[Emily Gaines Buchler]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-05T14:59:35
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These assessments push Austen beyond her stereotype as patron saint of marriage plots. As Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey, an English professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, argues in Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness (JHU Press, 2024), the author's rushed and unsatisfying wedding scenes reveal her ambivalence about the convention of marriage. "If marriage is so central to Austen as a novelist, why does she speed through the resolution?" Brodey asks.
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Here, she pokes fun at the fickle customs of upper-crust British society, which tended to base a woman's worth on external appearances, instead of internal qualities like intelligence and compassion.
In Jane Austin's time women were valued for their external appearance. In modern society we tend to economically prey on their intelligence and compassion.
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Austen never married and remained financially dependent on her family, despite earning a meager but noteworthy wage of £684 for the four novels she published during her lifetime. (Persuasion and Northanger Abbey were published posthumously.) "She was proud of the money she earned, but it wasn't enough to subsist on," Looser says.
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Among them: the smash-hit 1940 Pride and Prejudice film with Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier; Ang Lee's Oscar-winning Sense and Sensibility from 1995; the cult-classic Clueless (1996), based on Emma; and the 2016 mash-up of genres—romance meets sci-fi meets horror—in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, where heroine Elizabeth Bennet takes on a new role: slayer of the walking dead.
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The book's title also suggests abolitionist sentiments, given its connection to William Murray, the 1st Earl of Mansfield who served as Lord Chief Justice of England from 1756 to 1788—and was known as Lord Mansfield. In 1772, Mansfield ruled on a court case involving James Somerset, enslaved in colonial Virginia and brought to England by his master. After escaping and being recaptured, Somerset faced sale to a Jamaican plantation. A London abolitionist network intervened, and Mansfield ruled that Somerset—chained on a boat in the Thames—be freed.
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Midway through Jane Austen's 1814 novel Mansfield Park, a few lines of prose rouse readers into a debate that still rages. The heroine, Fanny Price, known for both her timidity and strong moral backbone, broaches a controversial topic among relatives: the presence of slaves on her uncle's sugar plantations in Antigua, then a British colony. Fanny's inquiry goes unanswered—or as she describes it, a "dead silence!" cuts through the air, as her cousins sit idly by "without speaking a word or seeming at all interested in the subject."
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For installing ribbon on almost all machines, it's recommended you set the ribbon selector to the "red" position and then simultaneously press the H and G keys so that they meet in the middle and temporarily "jam" in the up position. This holds the ribbon vibrator in its highest position making the vibrator easier to access and thread.
Reading manuals for your particular machine can help with respect to whether the ribbon should come off the front or the back of the spool: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-manuals.html
Reply to u/Smurf404OP at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1mifdaw/why_is_it_so_damn_hard_to_thread_ribbon_through/
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Place names in Irish with anglicizations:<br /> Rath - ráth = earthen ringfort accent on a Kill - Cill = church<br /> bally - baile = home of <br /> Bally - Bealach = way to / passage / direction to Bell = béal = mouth of<br /> Carrick - carraig = rock<br /> Clon - clúin = meadow<br /> Don - domhnach = church Drum - droim = back of <br /> Ennis - Inis = Island<br /> Letter - Leitir = hillside<br /> Lis - Lois = ringfort<br /> Mullagh - Mhullach = big hill/summit<br /> Tulla - tullach = heap
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Colman Manufacturing<br /> by [[Philly Typewriter]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-05T08:20:31
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Typewriter Repair Tools Reference: 1960 Ames Catalog<br /> by [[Ted Munk]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-05T08:14:59
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Soldering Typeface to Typebar & Use of Type Gauge S-221<br /> by [[Ted Munk]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-05T07:58:31
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Start here: https://typewriterdatabase.com/imperial.76.typewriter-serial-number-database Try to identify your particular model from the links at the bottom of the page to see specific examples. You can look through individual galleries to find a serial number and that may allow you to find the range of serial numbers made in particular years to narrow down your year. Looks like it's a "standard" from the late 30s or 1940s, possibly an Imperial 50.
Next find a manual (or something close): https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-manuals.html
Learn how they were used: https://boffosocko.com/2025/06/06/typewriter-use-and-maintenance-for-beginning-to-intermediate-typists/
Consider whether it will be cheaper/easier to have someone service it for you or to do it yourself: https://boffosocko.com/2025/06/23/typewriter-repair-costs-and-valuation-professional-shops-versus-collectors-versus-first-time-buyers/
Go crazy: https://boffosocko.com/research/typewriter-collection/
Good luck!
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Use and maintenance
The use and maintenance details you might be looking for: https://boffosocko.com/2025/06/06/typewriter-use-and-maintenance-for-beginning-to-intermediate-typists/
Typewriter Manuals
In case you need a manual: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-manuals.html Your specific manual may be helpful for the tiny specifics like where the carriage lock is or how to properly thread your ribbon, but all the "good" stuff may be in much older manuals for other machines, especially in the 1920s by which time most typewriter technology and features were roughly standardized. Later manuals became less dense as it was assumed that newer users had friends/family/teachers to show them the "missing manual" portions for how to use them.
Typewriter repair
If you need to or decide to (for fun) go down the repair rabbit hole: https://boffosocko.com/2024/10/24/learning-typewriter-maintenance-and-repair/
from reply to u/FarInsect3003 at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1mggp8g/olivetti_lettera_32_uppercase_smudge/
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There are two general types of "sticky keys": 1. sticky going up 2. sticky coming down
Sticky going up
For stickiness slowing down the typebar (on the way up or down), it's likely that you've got oil, dirt, dust, or other sludge in the segment of your machine. You'll want to flush out your segment with some solvent and potentially blow things out with compressed air to remove the source of the friction.
While you're flushing out the segment with your solvent of choice (lacquer thinner, paint thinner, mineral spirits, alcohol, etc.), actually move the typebars using the keys or by other means. This will help to get them moving and allow the solvent and subsequently compressed air to help flush the oil, dust, hair, etc. out of your machine. You've already got a mechanical cleaning device of sorts (the typebar itself) inside the segment, so move it while you're flushing it out!
It may take a few repeated treatments/attempts to get it all clear for all the keys, but it's far easier than taking everything apart.
When you're done, it's common wisdom that one should NOT oil the segment.
Sticky going down
If your typebar(s) are sticking due to friction at the typing point, then they need some gentle forming to the right or the left to prevent them from rubbing on the typing point so that they can fall back down to the type rest. The two videos below will help describe and demonstrate the symptoms as well as the repair. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrlt6VyC8D0&t=485s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arspyq1w4Iw
Other considerations
It's much less common, but once everything is clean and properly aligned, if you're still seeing sluggishness, it may be the case that the spring on the individual key has broken or become disconnected which prevents it from returning back to the type rest.
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Earlier this morning, I said to someone who was worried about typing topless:
You'll be joining a log line of typists, including Wood Allen, who liked to type "naked" or "topless".
I've even seen a few typewriter shops selling typewriters without the external shells. I'd a lot harder to keep them dust free, but it can certainly be fun. It's an fun, easy, and fascinating way to sell off a machine that's missing some screws or has dented/damaged panels.
reply to u/stiff_peach at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1mf2seo/typing_without_panels/
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Godrej & Boyce's Milind Dukle tells the Business Standard: "From the early 2000 onwards, computers started dominating. All the manufacturers of office typewriters stopped production, except us. Till 2009, we used to produce 10,000 to 12,000 machines a year. "We stopped production in 2009 and were the last company in the world to manufacture office typewriters. Currently, the company has only 500 machines left. The machines are of Godrej Prima, the last typewriter brand from our company, and will be sold at a maximum retail price of Rs 12,000."
The World's Last Typewriter Factory Closes in India - Business Insider<br /> by [[Gus Lubin]] for Business Insider accessed on 2025-08-01T09:26:55
Godrej & Boyce manufactured typewriters to 2009 and were selling off their final machines in 2011.
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The final typewriter manufacturers still out there: - Shanghai Weilv Mechanism Company (you really don't want one: https://boffosocko.com/2025/06/09/the-typewriter-you-probably-dont-want-to-buy/)<br /> - Nakajima still puts out daisy wheel word processors - Swintec still makes machines, but primarily clear bodied ones for prisons
The last of the serious manual typewriter manufacturers included: - Brother, who stopped manufacturing machines in Wrexham, Wales in 2012 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-20413234 - Godrej Typewriter quit manufacturing in 2009 and was finishing out the last of their stock in 2011 https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/world-s-last-typewriter-plant-stops-production-1.1090626
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Typewritermuse's "Speedy Spooler"
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Typewriter Ribbon Replace - How to : faster, easier, better. The Speedy Spooler by [[Bob Marshall]] aka [[Typewriter Muse]] on 2021-01-27
Who jury-rigged it first?
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Ribbon Spool / Reel 'The Speedy Spooler' on Typewriter Muse Typewriter Accessory<br /> by [[Typewriter Muse]]
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Baco Ribbons by [[Joe Van Cleave]]
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