courage is a virtue, and moderation, wisdom, and munificence,and very many others
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if you want the virtue of aman, it is easy to say that a man’s virtue consists of being able to manage publicaffairs and in so doing to benefit his friends and harm his enemies and to becareful that no harm comes to himself;
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Platen colors are for Hardness. Here is the complete breakdown of typewriter platen colors, their hardness levels, and how they perform:## Typewriter Platen Color & Hardness Chart| Platen Color | Shore A Hardness | Typing Feel & Characteristics | Best Suited For... ||---|---|---|---|| Light Gray / Off-White | 85 – 87 (Soft) | Highly cushioned, muffled "thup" sound. Very quiet, but text imprint can look slightly less sharp. | Comfort typists, ultra-portable machines, and preventing paper piercing. || Teal / Muted Blue-Gray | 85 – 88 (Soft/Medium) | Iconic historic factory standard (e.g., Swiss Hermes 3000). Smooth, buttery feel with great acoustic dampening. | Vintage European portables and mid-century aesthetic restorations. || Bright Blue | 88 – 90 (Medium) | Modern custom synthetic rubber. Perfect "sweet spot" that yields a crisp print without loud impact noise. | Modern custom restorations, antique portables (like Corona 3 or Remington). || Standard Black | 88 – 92 (Medium/Firm) | Replicates the original factory specification for most classic manual typewriters. Excellent, crisp lettering. | Standard everyday manual typewriters (e.g., Smith-Corona, Underwood, Olympia). || Bright Orange / Red | 93 – 100+ (Hard) | Incredibly dense and solid strike backing. Controls heavy vibration but creates a very loud, sharp snap. | Electromechanical/electric typewriters (like the IBM Selectric) and heavy office machines. || DIY Heat-Shrink Blue/Black | 95 – 100+ (Rock Hard) | Often a cheap cosmetic cover-up over a dead platen. Feels like hard plastic, sounds deafening, and punches holes in paper. | Avoid for regular typing; requires a backing sheet if used. |
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Typewriter repair pros used Lix mixed with solvent in typewriter tanks to dip machines for cleaning.
- James C. Cagle of The Typewriter Shop, 340 Alder Street, Junction City, OR
- Jack Lacy of Central Printer Resources, 4599 E Ramon Road, Palm Springs, CA
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Mentioned in Plato's Crito
Achilles mentions arriving on the third day "in fertile Phthia" as does Socrates in Plato's Crito.
Relationship with Jesus' resurrection on the third day?
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u/N0nob compares the weight versus feel of their typewriter collection:
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One can't help but wonder if the naming of the private detective Milton Arbogast who was hired by Mary's boss to retrieve the money in the movie Psycho was subtly done on purpose?? 😮🤯
-gast (female dog, bitch) as a pejorative in Welsh
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I've noticed that there are many pejorative terms containing "gi" that are listed in various online dictionaries: bolgi - glutton brolgi - boaster cachgi - coward celwyddgi - liar chwiwgi - rogue clapgi / clepgi - gossiper / babbler cilgi - coward llechgi - sneak / skulker llwfrgi / llyfrgi - coward
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David Born helped Richard Polt to update the list of typewriter repair shops. domarb@fastmail.cn
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https://www.ebay.com/usr/1532xplane <br /> Darwin Raymond, Raymond's Office Machines, 927 Grand Ave., Glenwood Springs, CO 81601. (970) 945-5872.
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Occasionally I've signed my typewriters in inconspicuous places. I've also designed stickers that I use on machines I service and sell under the name Urban Legend Typewriters.
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Servicing the Hermes 3000 Typewriter<br /> by [[Joe Van Cleave]] on YouTube
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This Olympia SM9 typewriter has a carriage lock on it indicated by the #1 in the diagram in the manual at https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/OlympiaSM9.pdf Engaging the lock will cause two teeth to engage with a set of matching holes in the carriage on the left hand side of the machine that will lock the carriage in the center. (You should be able to physically see this happen by looking straight down from above on the left side of the front of the carriage as you engage the lock.) The Carriage Release lever (#15 in diagram) will allow the carriage to be moved left or right to properly center & lock the carriage into place.
Please ensure the typewriter is also properly seated into the hardware inside the case and locked so that it can't move and fill in any dead space in the case prior to shipment.
These two precautions will help ensure safe shipment of the delicate internal mechanisms under the carriage.
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The typewriters I collect have to do with language.
Julian Plys of Haddonfield, New Jersey collects typewriters based on language.
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But with the machine, when you're writing on a typewriter, you're just writing on a typewriter. It does one thing really, really well. I tell people all the time, typewriter is a machine that writes. A computer is a machine that happens to write.
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We have a long way to go before this unit is ready to rock and roll again (if it ever will be), but it'll be a lot of fun working on it and finding out.
The writer is definitely into the repair portion of the typewriter hobby space and despite some of the FUD he's spewing for lack of experience, he seems on the right track. He's discounting his lack of experience in the general space compared to his experience in computers, games, and guitar repair which he's obviously spent time. At least he can rely on this scaffolding to move forward in the typewriter repair space. Most others won't have this experience at all and that makes it even more difficult.
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I ended up first getting an antique typewriter for free and then finding myself back at the drawing board when it proved to be more of a “fixer-upper” than I wanted it to be.
Example of someone getting an old typewriter as a "fixer-upper" and probably wishing they'd gotten one refurbished from a repair shop.
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But, man, they’re a pain in the neck sometimes. They’re not exactly portable. Repairs can be difficult. Parts might be difficult to source. Plastic fatigue can destroy some parts of the machines. Pressing down on the keys can be a bit of a process at times. And if you get a machine where the rubber has turned to sticky sludge? God help you. The machines, while often beautiful, are absolutely not convenient in any way whatsoever. Also, you’d better be into some serious lubrication if you’re going to maintain an older model.
Most of the FUD here is that people are too cheap to bother having their machines properly serviced anymore and this is compounded by the fact that they don't know how to do most of the basics by themselves.
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Some people feel that using a typewriter can enhance creativity. Makes sense. But I think the most obvious tech-related draw of these old machines is that they offer a way to create something genuine and avoid so-called artificial intelligence.
There's a way to link this to the idea behind Friedrich Nietzsche's discussion about typewriters as tools and how that effects our work.
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There’s a reason why screen time, social media, and LLMs have such a massive conversation around them. So, I’d say that avoiding distraction is definitely a reason why people would want to use one right now. Most “typewriter enthusiast” articles and videos online like to use this as a talking point to convince folks to use them.
Author noticing something I've experienced in typewriter articles.
Perhaps it's time to aggregate some of the typewriter articles since the pandemic to see which categories they fall into?
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is literally trying to make the act of accessing intelligence itself a subscription.
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And before you say, “Well, why don’t you use an Ethernet cable and buy non-HP ink cartridges?” Well, I did, but that’s not the point. The point is, I bought a friggin’ printer and feel like I should be able to use the darn thing without a subscription or maintenance fee. I’m a firm believer in OWNING WHAT I PAY FOR. I’m not the only one who feels that way (Louis Rossman and the FULU Foundation are big on owning what you buy). I would rather deal with the hassle of typing up several pages on a typewriter than deal with a stupid subscription-based printer. The need to get away from the constant bombardment of ads, subscriptions, and owning nothing is a big part of why physical media is coming back, at least according to Rolling Stone. Streaming sucks, anyway.
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“They’re not causing a typewriter revival, because the typewriter people just aren’t interested in these.”
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Let’s just say it makes perfect sense as to why someone would actually want to use a typewriter in what is now the mid-2020s, even if it kind of sucks sometimes. I can think of a few reasons, but the simplest one is: no subscriptions and the right to repair.
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onomatopoeia (thanks, Todd Rundgren)
Apparently Todd Rundgren has a late 70s love song about onomatopoeia?!
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“The kids get it,” Lundy says. “They’re not trying to be nostalgic for something they never experienced. They’re trying to escape what they experience every day.”
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“I type very quickly, very badly, with many errors [ fautes],” Jacques Derrida confessed in a late interview. This paper proposes that the typographical error – usually viewed as a mere “accident” – may in fact be understood as a productive site for deconstructive reading and thought. Drawing on Nietzsche’s suggestion that the typewriter acts as a “collaborator” in thinking, this paper examines Derrida’s use of the typewriter, with particular attention to his typos. Following Derrida’s reading in the Geschlecht series and his own typographical practice, this paper argues that the typo should be thought of as the condition of possibility of every type – and as a defining difference between Derrida and Heidegger.
Chenoweth, Katie. 2021. “Faute de Frappe: Derrida’s Typos.” Research in Phenomenology 51(1): 61–77. doi:10.1163/15691640-12341464.
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Potentially one of the Coronamatic line: 1200 or 2200.
Might be a Coronet XL, but his looks like it has the Smith-Corona badging/name on the front left where the Coronet XL name was typically placed. https://typewriterdatabase.com/Smith+Corona.Coronamatic+Coronet+XL.86.bmys
The shape of the top of the 2500 isn't quite right: https://typewriterdatabase.com/Smith+Corona.Coronamatic+2500.86.bmys
The shapes of the Coronamatic 7000 and 8000 are wrong for this.
See also guesses at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1wzwzvi/what_typewriter_did_derrida_use/
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From the James Normal Hall home museum. James Norman Hall is an American writer best known for The Bounty Trilogy, a series of historical novels co-authored with Charles Bernard Nordhoff: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934), and Pitcairn's Island (1934).
This photo appears to show him at a different machine that looks more like a standard:<br />
It's an early 40's Royal Quiet De Luxe (it appears to have a tabulator key in the top right). Compare with: https://typewriterdatabase.com/Royal.Quiet+De+Luxe.72.bmys Note the rectangular shift keys which didn't start until late 1940.
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These may help: http://www.crisvandevel.de/cst.htm https://www.johnwolff.au/calculators/Tech/TechIndex.htm https://www.jaapsch.net/mechcalc/index.htm http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/mechanical_calculators.html And another you absolutely must bookmark: http://badonoer.blogspot.com/ Peruse the whole site! Do not just blindly oil things in here. Probably it wants no oil at all, and these sites will have detailed advice.
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You'll be hard-pressed to find a modern desk with heights specifically for typewriters.
Most mid-century typewriter specific furniture was designed to put the tabletop for a typewriter at 26 inches off of the floor, but the average modern desk is typically at 28 inches.
Your best bet is either a wooden or metal executive tanker desk with either one or two pedestals. They often have writing drawers which pull out and you can put a typewriter on them to lose an inch or two. Some also had spring-loaded platforms which allowed you to open a door and pulling your typewriter up and out at a better/lower height. Other desks had a rotating desktop to which you could bolt your typewriter and allow you to flip the typewriter upside down for storage underneath the desk. Some also came with a desk return which was attached to the side at a height a few inches lower that had space for a typewriter.
There are also some small vintage typewriter stands, usually with wheels to allow for some modest mobility. These can be found for about US$50 these days.
Examples: - https://boffosocko.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/wp-17169128054434698029806415884065.jpg<br /> - https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51bda2fe-c049-4b48-a057-87457a49e01a_902x882.png<br /> - https://www.google.com/search?q=typewriter+stand
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I presume you're going the route in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1upTPepErTY and miming/pretending all the typing with the carriage stuck at a set point by setting the margins so that the carriage doesn't move at all? The typist is then the tenth chair percussionist who is really only playing a desk bell.
I think the illusion is best when the bell is hidden from the audience in front of the typewriter and the typist actually only spaces and machine and does (quiet) carriage returns. The typing sound is then done by electronic keyboard and the carriage returns are played by wooden guiro, washboard or something similar.
You'll notice by watching any dozens of versions of performances of Leroy Anderson's "The Typewriter" that they're ALWAYS CHEATNG on the actual use of a typewriter. As an example, the bell on the typewriter in your video has been disabled/removed and the performer is using a separate bell mounted on the table next to it. It appears that he's finger pecking only two keys and/or only using the spacebar which moves the carriage. Many performances don't even attempt to properly time the carriage returns to the sound. Half of the "performance" is the attempt at comedy in the playing or presentation . You're trying to one up Jerry Lewis in 1963's Who's Minding the Store, which is never easy.
If you've got a practiced enough percussionist/typist, you can do the typing in reality though you may need to mic it up for volume/projection, but I recommend putting the paper up a few inches and not using the paper bale to get a louder percussion of the slug hitting the paper. If you go this route, I would recommend not using a machine with Perspex card guides, removing/disabling the paper fingers if there are any. It's impossible to get carriage returns done properly via sound as there are a few points at which the carriage hasn't moved enough to go more than a space or two.
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I recently got a 1924 Stoewer Elite with this gorgeous wooden case. The veneer survived the past 102 years remarkably well, apart from a small chip on one of the rear corners. The finish, however, was showing its age. The wood looked dull, with a couple of deep scratches and the nickel plated parts had started to rust. It needed some work, so I decided to refinish it. In a few places the veneer had started to lift slightly. I filled a syringe with wood glue and used a hypodermic needle to get the glue underneath it. This worked really well and avoided having to lift the veneer too much and risk breaking it. Luckily, the veneer was also thick enough to carefully use an orbital sander to remove the old finish and stain (low RPM, light pressure). I chose a mahogany stain that was quite close to the original, followed by six coats of shellac to bring out the wood grain. Finally, I buffed it with extra-fine steel wool and applied a coat of beeswax for some protection against moisture. It also smells very pleasant now! I’m really happy with how it turned out. It was a fun project, and the shellac/beeswax combination gave it a beautiful satin sheen.
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I prefer older, manual typewriters, but I just bought a Smith-Corona Electra 210 from FB Marketplace for $20. I enjoyed typing on it, and the fact that my fingers didn't slip between the keys and the typebars didn't jam. However, using an electric typewriter feels a bit like "cheating" in terms of breaking away from our digital world. It's not strictly analog, so I'm ambivalent about using it. I'm interested in hearing your opinions on the topic.
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We can't absolve you of your guilt, but you can choose to use what works best for you.
Pretty much none of us are offline (look where we're discussing this). No one is really choosing to type with their heating or air conditioning off, or type by candlelight. You have options about where your analog line could be, just choose one and start banging away.
If you want to talk about guilt, tell us about your 70 typewriters that you're constantly rotating because you feel guilty that they're not all getting enough use.
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A thermal typewriter will be the quietest option. As a high school teacher with typewriters in my room, here is my experience: kids are allowed to use them during passing time and if we have some independent time and they are done with their work, but they are too noisy to use for notes or during instruction. If a student wanted to use a regular manual typewriter during class, I would ask them to stop, because it would be too much of a distraction to the class (and me).
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Advice from a self-identified high school teacher with manual typewriters in their classroom.
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I call these, "Undervettis."
"Undervetti" as a derogatory term for poorly made Underwood typewriters under the Olivetti regime. —via u/strestle at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1wvb2l8/is_an_olivetti_underwood_just_a_postmerger/
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Ezra’s slightly mad typewriter-cleaning cocktail! After experimenting with various cleaners, this has become one of my favorites for grimy painted metal and bare metal parts: roughly 75% Simple Green, with the remaining 25% divided between isopropyl alcohol, white vinegar and lemon juice.
With caveats, this is what Ezra Rosensaft uses for external typewriter cleaning using modest amounts on a clean damp cloth.
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The Gramercy mix: 1/3 409, 1/3 ammonia, 1/3 water.Like
Andy Morris reports that Jay Schweitzer of Grammercy Typewriter uses this cleaning formula for cleaning the exterior of typewriters to be applied to a soft cotton cloth and not directly on the machine.
Morris further suggests staying away from decals with this.
Second hand advice, but no reason to doubt it. https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1386689876983116
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"That's the sound of typing. It's the cadence of creativity. It's the percussion of punctuation. <br /> That sound you'll get lost in it. It becomes a rhythm. It becomes a music that will not only tell you—and the other people in the other room—that you're working, it will also spur you on to other areas of imagination that you will eventually create and record forever on your typewriter."<br /> —Tom Hanks in _Secret Talent Theatre" episode "Tom Hanks Changes the Ribbon on a Typewriter" for Vanity Fair on 2018-02-28 [00:02:16]
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A typewriter pro would switch the ribbon selection switch to the red setting and jam two keys together in front of the typing point. This raises the ribbon vibrator to it's highest position and makes taking the ribbon out and replacing it much easier.
Tom Hanks does not demonstrate this finer feature.
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years<br /> by [[Emma Goldberg]] in The New York Times<br /> accessed on 2026-10-01T09:18:29
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Then much of the campus attention moved on.
College rape culture is too set in stone. There's a way of doing things that doesn't help prevent future incidents and people just "move on" without addressing the systemic problems that allow it to continue. In hundreds of cases the same script plays out both in colleges and in public life.
Colleges and their surrounding cultures need to dramatically change the script to prevent these incidences. Accountability is the watchword.
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The Cornell Rape Investigation: Five Takeaways<br /> by [[Sharon Otterman]] in The New York Times<br /> accessed on 2026-10-01T09:08:38
A reasonable overview of the case of the Cornell Seven for the date.
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Most of the gossip blamed her, calling her “a whore that had an eightsome with the Chi Phi guys.”
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This Air Purifier Is the Most Popular Wirecutter Product of All Time<br /> by [[Rose Maura Lorre]] in Reviews by Wirecutter in the New York Times accessed on 2026-10-01T08:59:03
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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped<br /> by Hurubie Meko in The New York Times<br /> accessed on 2026-10-01T08:31:05
Example of a university sweeping another campus rape under the rug.
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In the days after Jane Doe provided her statement to the police, officers tried to contact the men she accused, with varying degrees of success, according to the administrative documents.
So the police didn't manage to track down all the students involved?! WTF?
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When members of her sorority heard about the theft, they decided she would no longer be the designated sober sister tasked with keeping an eye on sorority sisters at a bar that evening, she recalled.
The fact that a "designated sober sister" even exists really tells you everything you need to know about college rape culture.
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Cornell, though, conducted its own investigation.
Why do Universities conduct their own investigations?
Is it to help the victim feel "heard" in a "process" which inevitably almost always ends up papering over the harm and the continued issues?
Is it to make it seem like they're doing something while maintaining the status quo?
Is it to cover their ass in some sense?
In this case of the Cornell Seven, the fact that they didn't relay the ultimate harm to the district attorney is highly suspicious.
Who do university police actually represent? Do they represent the "corporate" University or the community? How do they treat victims as a result?
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How a Cornell Student Went From Shame to Anger<br /> by Debra Kamin, Matt Flegenheimer, Amy Julia Harris, Sharon Otterman in The New York Times<br /> accessed on 2026-10-01T08:20:45
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Christa Pike Live Updates: Tennessee Pauses Future Execution After Botched Attempt<br /> by [[Billy Witz]], [[Emily Cochrane]], [[Rick Rojas]], [[Yan Zhuang]] in The New York Times <br /> accessed on 2026-10-01T08:14:35
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In fact, I do! You've probably asked the one person who's spent the time delving into the typewriter database to try to puzzle something out on this front.
I've not seen it in official sources, but the following pattern seems to fit:
Royal Standard serial numbers are generally of the form [MMM][P,E,S]-XX-YY-#######, where:
- MMM is the model designator (X, KHM, KMM, KMG, HH, FP, etc.);
- P is for 10 pitch/Pica, E is for 12 pitch/Elite, and S is for Special (typically special order typefaces);
- XX is the platen length, when not the standard/default size;
- YY is for other special features, typically the number of glyphs in the typeface; and
- ######## is the serial number.
Yours has a YY=86 which typically indicates that the machine has 86 glyphs on the slugs in the typeface and thus 86/2 = 43 character (typing) keys on the keyboard. There are also examples of other YY numbers like YY=88 with 44 keys and YY=92 or 46 keys versus the standard 42 keys. You may notice under your machine that the keyboard has a metal "comb" which may have some empty slots into which addition keylevers and typebar assemblies could be added. Often the YY designator is either for special order keyboards or keyboards for foreign languages which require additional keys.
Thus the 86 means that your machine has an extra key (the +/=) not found on their standard issue keyboard at the time.
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Hot glue on the tips of the typebar return spring of Brother typewriters to dampen the noise they make. One could similarly use a small rubber washer on these as well.
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Smith-Corona rebrand with a Standard Elite No 66<br />
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Smith-Corona Sterling 12 typeface with foundry mark
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Hermes 3000, techno pica typeface with an "S TP" foundry mark
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In the early part of the film, the very young rock journalist, William Miller, tells rock critic Lester Bangs that he types on a Smith-Corona Galaxy Deluxe. Later in the film, William uses in his bedroom a completely different Smith-Corona model. 😂<br /> via Di McMc
Almost Famous (DreamWorks Pictures, 2000)
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Vertical alignment was important as was an unworn typeface. Resulting in the need sometimes to replace worn typefaces or decrease the hole size using a clockmakers hole closing punch and anvil.
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An assumption is made that the typebar is tight on the pivot wire. The oldest electric machines use a power roller and small plastic cams. The force causes the pivot hole to become oval in shape causing bad vertical alignment.
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Typebars are a 2 piece assembly a tipeface made from antimony hardened linotype type metals. And the bar itself. The two parts are soft soldered together. Since the soldering process is difficult to do exactly peening a crushing operation using a peeling pliers. The tool on the left. The tool on the right holds the type bar to prevent twisting. The typebar has a straight section below the typeface to for crushing to mive the typeface in the vertical plane.
mive = move
A description from repairman James Yearnd of using peening pliers on and an aligning wrench on a typebar to move the typeface in the vertical plane.
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Superagetine is a mineral spirits mixable detergent helps the mineral spirits or Stoddard solventb dissolve grease and oil and suspend it so that the crude settles to the bottom of the tank.
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd1Gi9kjkef/<br /> Florence Pugh's ASMR with a Hermes Baby and a Blackwing 602.
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As I'm delving into the Fourth Turning, I'm piqued by the idea of how their theory overlaps or jives with similar historical cyclic theories like Secular Cycles. Bigger span theories like Ian Morris ought to fit in to some of these, though Morris' data may not be granular enough to show it. Similarly one has to wonder with increasing technology, do these cycles speed up over time?
- Turchin, Peter, and Sergey A. Nefedov. 2009. Secular Cycles. 1st ed. Princeton University Press. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691136967/secular-cycles (September 30, 2026).
- Review: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2weRdcvqANDq3zdPH/book-review-secular-cycles
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Ginger Rogers newspaper article about her using a Royal typewriter with Vogue<br />
Frank Capra writing on a Remington Portable as pictured in The Wisconsin State Journal on August 15,1931<br />
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The typeslugs were manufactured by the Setag SA, a specialized type foundry based in Bassecourt, Switzerland.Like
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Harlan Ellison with pipe at an SG3 typewriter 
Harlan Ellison leaning on an Olympia SG1 typewriter (alternate angle from photo already in Richard Polt's collection) 
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Harlan Ellison with pipe types at an Olympia SG3 typewriter
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Found an option for replacing the rubber feet on my 1952 SC Skyriter. Used a Hillman Group grommet, #55050-E, with a groove diameter of 1/2", and a groove thickness of 1/16".
via u/TomMahalla at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1vkvwkx/smithcorona_skyriter_replacement_feet/
He also suggests: Jandorff #61506 Rubber Grommets 3/4" OD x 7/16" ID x 1/4" thick x 9/16" groove diameter x 1/16" groove width which are sold by various places including Ace Hardware
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John Houston with a cigarette in his mouth as he sits at a Royal KMM typewriter on the set of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Warner Bros. Pictures, 1948). He looks up to his right at Humphrey Bogart who is leaning over to look at the page in the typewriter.
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Just wanted to share my excitement! I've been into typewriters for about 2 years and I started buying and repairing and selling typewriters just short of a year now. I have a small YT channel, an IG account and word of mouth around the village (pop. Aprox 1200 ppl) where a local grandpa asked to fix up his old Triumph, which was a freebie for experience and, not gonna charge grandpa! Last week, someone from across the island reached out to me, asking for assistance. They had recently purchased an Olivetti Letters 31, his first typewriter. We chatted and agreed on a price and a week later, it's now ready for pick-up. New ribbon, general degrease, clean and polish. The client is already excited and happy with the images and will collect it tomorrow. As far as I am aware, there is no "official" repair shop in Mallorca and from searches, I appear to be the only one (correct me if I'm wrong) but, the fact that someone found me and asked for my services, has made me extremely happy and excited and I'm hoping this will open the door to many new typewriters in look of TLC. Just wanted to share and thank all of you who have helped and given advice on repairs and general questions I've had which has led me to this point. Let's hope this is the start of something new and exciting.
James Wood aka u/Wooden_Underpants has a small typewriter repair service in Mallorca.
https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1wt5isk/my_first_official_client_and_thank_you/
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Reply to Orga A 38 1908 r!!<br /> by Neat_Substance_2084 at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1wsmhar/orga_a_38_1908_r/
From what I've seen, your only evidence of your claim are a poorly hand scratched marking and some metallurgic tests.
You need a lot more evidence than what you're presenting to prove your claim, particularly given the decade and change of the passing of time.
I can scratch a 1940 date onto my Olympia SM3, but it doesn't mean that it's a prototype from 13 years earlier. Your presumed date is also of the form of an accounting ledger and not one that a mechanic would have scratched in.
Do you have any provenance on your machine? (Who owned it and when?)
Do you have any paperwork from the designers? Patents?
The material tests only show a difference in the metal content, they don't indicate a date of any sort. If they could, you'd need a lot more material research on manufacturing methods and timelines from the historical record to back it up. Typewriter manufacturers were constantly changing their manufacturing lines and designs to make them more efficient and less expensive to improve their bottom lines, so your material science differences would seem par for the course. Can you show similar changes in materials from the companies toy lines over the same period?
You seem to be only sharing blurry photos of screens rather than direct documentation of your material difference claims. Where are the direct documents and which company did the testing?
Given the tremendous amount of focus on design changes and patents in early typewriter manufacturing and sales, how does the design of your machine fit into the early aughts from 1900-1910 versus 1920 and on? Typewriter designs had settled down significantly by the early 1920s, so there should be some reasonably significant design differences between a 1908 machine and one from 1923. Where have you documented those?
What company history physically exists? When did they begin design? When were they producing prototypes in general? 13 years of R&D is a tremendous amount of time to pass in typewriter design in the early 1900s before manufacturing of any sort, even if you discount stoppages for World War I. Are there extant notebooks or corporate papers from the time period you're claiming? They were manufacturing toys for decades prior, so surely they've got some reasonable corporate documentation and correspondence somewhere. Do any of the descendants have papers, receipts, or diaries that could be consulted? What were the market conditions that suggested to them that a move from toys to typewriters was a brilliant idea? Often in a prototype situation, a factor may not have all the manufacturing capabilities in-house or they'd need to make changes to equipment to make a new line. Are there pieces of your typewriter that were outsourced from other factories? Is there evidence that all the parts of the later machines were made in-house?
Think like an archaeologist. Think like a historian. Bring some more research to bear if you want to convince anyone (experts or otherwise) of your claims. It should seem painfully obvious to you by now that what you're presenting is not nearly enough. No one is attacking you. We're just asking for more if we're going to be convinced.
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Tom Parker (aka The Colonel) used a Royal RE
Don Schlitz wrote The Gambler which became a hit for Kenny Rogers (1978) on an L.C. Smith Model 14<br />
Bill Anderson had a Royal Electress
Cindy Walker used a Royal Quiet De Luxe ('53 or '54)
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Gold Royal Cartier KMM Typewriter<br /> accessed on 2026-09-27T22:41:47
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ROYAL TYPEWRITER HONORS SALES HEAD; M.V. Miller Gets Gold Machine for Ten Years' Service - The New York Times<br /> by [[The New York Times]]<br /> accessed on 2026-09-27T22:37:22
The cost of the typewriter was $1,500.
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1939 "The Gold Royal" Typewriter<br /> by Grant Zahajko for [[Antiques Roadshow]] on PBS<br /> accessed on 2026-09-27T22:28:49
Presented 1940-09-01 to Vice President M.V. Miller in honor of 10 years of Sales Leadership by The Royal Typewriter Sales Organization.
Copy of video at https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=849718491497922
A gold plated and Cartier engraved Royal KMM typewriter. It was engraved with 1054 names by Warner MacDonald in 1939 at cost of $5,000. It was exhibited at the 1939 Worlds Fair and presented to the owner's grandfather in 1940. He was ultimately the president of the company. Antiques Roadshow appraised it at $30,000 - 40,000.
There are 2,257 parts in a Royal KMM.
See newspaper article:<br /> ROYAL TYPEWRITER HONORS SALES HEAD; M.V. Miller Gets Gold Machine for Ten Years' Service - The New York Times<br /> by [[The New York Times]]<br /> accessed on 2026-09-27T22:32:07
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Anecdotes of what has become of old typewriter shops.
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Chart of authors and their number of ! per 100,000 words from Ben Blatt's Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing
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In his book 10 Rules of Writing, Elmore Leonard offered a rule about exclamation points. He stated, “You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.” Leonard was prolific. He wrote more than 40 novels in his career, totaling 3.4 million words. If he had followed his own advice, he would have used only 102 exclamation points in his entire career. In practice, he used 1,651. That’s 16 times as many as he recommended!
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Note-Taking advice from the Harvard University Academic Resource Center
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Bedale Original & Classic - short, vented rear knitted inner cuffs Beaufort Original & Classic - a little longer, game pocket, velcro inner cuffs Ashby - newer style, trimmer fit Border - for the taller person ends mid-thigh ish waxed cotton sage & navy only Classic Northumbria - exactly as Border but 8oz sylkoil i.e. cotton that is not shaved before being waxed so looks slightly distressed to begin with. All compatible with a range of zip in liners of differing weights and a couple of different hoods. That’s pretty much all you need to know for your first choice.
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Based on the Royals on this post and Reddit, Ben Jones is u/harperjones
See:<br /> https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1383329093985861<br /> https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ws0gy7/royal_futura_alignment_issue/
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I just ordered a belt from West Coast Belts. Mine is a Silver Reed 8700 which uses the same belt as the Underwood 565. They're almost identical machines,
via Claude Medearis at https://typewriterdatabase.com/1979-underwood-electric-565.12254.typewriter
See: https://westcoastbelts.com/product/new-replacement-belt-for-silver-reed-electric-8700-typewriter/
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I would like to see how one is set up and coordinated in a physical space first. I'm curious about what's needed behind the scenes to get the ball rolling. For the time being, I'm looking forward to joining one in LA County 👍
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Oooh, how exciting!! I’m in the Los Angeles area, how can I get on a notification list?
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Ed Medina reports that beading wire can be used to replace typewriter drawbands.
26 pound test strength.
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Evelyn Forevermore is that an aesthetic/dreamy “feeling” reply, or serious “has a purpose”? Serious question, as I know zero about this. Were all these fonts just aesthetic choices or are several considered apt for specific purposes and not for others. thanks!
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Most of it is marketing in nature. The vast majority of typewriters have a standard courier serifed typeface, but manufacturers sold italic and cursive faces for a more "personal" touch in your correspondence. Italics was particularly marketed toward business executives to the point that many have the name "Executive". Many banks and accounting applications preferred used Gothic or double gothic typefaces for accounting work. Some banks also had custom faces to make it more difficult for people to wash checks.
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At the Smithsonian, Maya Angelou's typewriter holds a place of honor : NPR<br /> by [[Daniel Ofman]] for NPR<br /> accessed on 2026-09-27T13:31:46
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You can see the keys are kind of well-worn. You can still read them. So it looks like she was typing very regularly.
While described as "well worn", most typewriters with plastic keys don't really show heavy wear, so it's not surprising that "You can still read them."
This is a museum curator creating a feeling of typewriter nostalgia by way of unintended misinformation.
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LABODE: This artifact is a typewriter that belonged to Maya Angelou. She probably had it from the early 1980s until her death. It's an Adler typewriter. It's an electric typewriter that was manufactured in West Germany.
This tracks with the Adler Meteor 12 from Soboroff's collection which is already documented on Richard Polt's page.
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My earlier SM3 (SN 1145162) does have the back rule, but the layer (SN 1268955) does *not.*
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1958 Olympia SM3 manufacturing changes regarding adding a rule for the rear tabulator sets.
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Welcome to the Royal KMM club! Seems like lots of these have been posted in the last day including one by u/betternatured and another by u/the-other-gusta along with a very similar Royal KMG by u/Jacki-san.
The serial number puts yours down as a KMM with an 11 inch platen manufactured in 1945. Cross reference: https://typewriterdatabase.com/royal.72.typewriter-serial-number-database
Manual: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RoyalKMM.pdf
These were really popular and ubiquitous, standard (large desktop) typewriters in the mid-century that were the workhorse of many offices. Because they were so common and so heavy, they only go for $5-25 in the used market in either unknown or marginal condition. If they're cleaned up and well-serviced they can go for more with a cap of around $300-400 depending on the level of restoration. Some with special features (like special typefaces) or provenance may go for more.
The Royal KMM was known to have been used by writers including: John Ashberry, Harry Ashmore, Russell Baker, Ray Bradbury, Richard Bratigan, Richard Brooks, Pearl S. Buck, Johnny Carson, Norman Corwin, Frank Herbert, Ken Kesey, G.W. Lee, Harper Lee, Ursula K. LeGuin, David McCullough, Margaret Mead, Grangland Rice, and Dorothy Parker. This was also the model famously used by Angela Landsbury's character on the TV show Murder, She Wrote.
Spools and Ribbon:<br /> The spools for the standard Royal typewriters (Ten, H, KH, KHM, KMM, KMG, RP, HH, FP, Empress, 440, 660, etc.) have a custom metal mechanism for their auto-reverse. The spools are known as the T1 (which is the same as General Ribbon part # T1-77B , T1-77BR, and Nu-Kote B64.) If winding on universal ribbon onto them, remove the eyelette which isn't needed and may interfere with the auto reverse.
If you're missing the original spools, Ribbons Unlimited carries them: https://www.ribbonsunlimited.com/6N064-Royal-Standard-Electric-Ribbon-64-p/6n064.htm or you might source an original metal pair from a local repair shop.
Duane of Phoenix Typewriter has a video about how to change and spool up your Royal standard.
Collector Sarah Everett can show you most of the functions on her YouTube Channel for Just My Typewriter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Zvc1m-8aI.
Depending on your level of typewriter knowledge try out some of the following short films which will also provide some tips, tricks, and maintenance advice common in the era of your machine:
- Basic Typing: Methods. Vol. MN-1512a. United States Navy Training Film, 1943. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztyzGit1dTI
- Basic Typing: Machine Operation. Vol. MN-1512b. United States Navy Training Film, 1943. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-REJEArnjE
- Advanced Typing: Shortcuts. Vol. MN-1512c. United States Navy Training Film, 1943. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUJfCfqgsX0
- Advanced Typing: Duplicating and Manuscript. Vol. MN-1512d. United States Navy Training Film, 1943. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ve5JnTUzvo
- Maintenance Of Office Machines. Vol. MN-1513. United States Navy Training Film, 1943. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocdxgkxKAKo
Happy Typing!
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I am scared by random people writing this and that with compressed air.We learned in typewriter school in the navy.1.remove rubber bumpers platen and feed rolls.2. Mix 1to 1 superagetine and mineral spirits. Stoddard solvent also works.3. Soak overnight.4. Drain and rinse with fresh solvent.5 air dry or bake @95°F.6 .cool and manually re oilNow a day oil only with synthetic 0 weight oil.7 .check and brush typefaces.8. Clean platten.Reinstall and type test, align typefaces. Only permanent align is peening typebars. This is the way I maintained 200 typewriters on an aircraft carrier.This what worked for me.Spring scale at .75 Lbs. For tape tension.Adjust the rail clamps and clean under if required. Carrage should slide with 3 oz or lessLike
I am scared by random people writing this and that with compressed air.<br /> We learned in typewriter school in the navy.<br /> 1. remove rubber bumpers platen and feed rolls. 2. Mix 1to 1 superagetine and mineral spirits. Stoddard solvent also works.<br /> 3. Soak overnight.<br /> 4. Drain and rinse with fresh solvent.<br /> 5. air dry or bake @95°F.<br /> 6. cool and manually re oil<br /> Now a day oil only with synthetic 0 weight oil.<br /> 7. check and brush typefaces.<br /> 8. Clean platten.
Reinstall and type test, align typefaces. Only permanent align is peening typebars.<br /> This is the way I maintained 200 typewriters on an aircraft carrier.<br /> This what worked for me.<br /> Spring scale at .75 Lbs. For tape tension.<br /> Adjust the rail clamps and clean under if required. Carrage should slide with 3 oz or less
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An Olympia SM2 pained electric blue.
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Asking the no-oriented question, "Do you have a problem with me doing xyz?" is better than directly asking for the thing you want.
Ask for the "no" answer rather than the "yes" answer which feels like the respondent is giving something up.
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Leaves described as "elf typing paper".
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GOAT = Get Old And Type ????
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I was an IM rating in the Navy. As a instrument repairman I was responsible for repairing typewriters of all types regardless of the make or model as well as adding machines and the calculators of the time like the mighty Monroe 1000 gear long division moving carriage machine.<br /> I retained many special tools and books and have knowledge that will go away when I die
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u/Every_Bandicoot2321 is Tom Fasano of https://tomfasano.com/
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Taken from “Imperial News”, Volume 20, Number 2, Winter 1963-64.
This would have been published after 1963-11-22 which is mentioned in the article.
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History of the Shavian Keyboard Imperial Good Companion Portable Typewriter<br /> by [[Robert Messenger]] of oz.Typewriter accessed on 2026-09-24T10:20:26
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Arne Lange10 Mar 2015, 16:23:00Thanks a lot for this article. I am looking forward to part 2! Olympia portables are my favourites.There is some interesting history behind the Colortip rebranding. Those typewriters were primarily sold by agents door by door, resulting in quite some scandals. The company that ended being renamed Colortip was run by Josef Haid, who at times ran a network of more than 4000 agents. Their practice was to sell contracts for typewriter telecourses - only that those contracts had a hidden clause that included the purchase of a typewriter. Different brands were involved over the years (Alpina typewriters also made some sales over this route). If you trust google translate, this German article from that time would be quite interesting: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-45140285.htmlWhat I find especially interesting about the Colortip machines is that there should be some modified later versions of Olympis SMs, that allowed to lock certain keys to make learning to type easier. As far as I know, they have an extra lever, that has three settings: program (lock all keys that are subsequently used), type (only the keys not locked before would budge) and reset. This lever would be unter the spool cover close to the left spool. I have been looking for those, but haven't found one yet. Also there is not much info to find about those....
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- m/n (moneda nacional - aka use national currency like the Argentine peso rather than other currencies)
- o/s as oro sellado (sealed gold or gold currency); might also have been used for orden de servicio or orden de salida as service order or dispatch order respectively
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“His name, Socrates, is Evenus, he comes from Paros, [c] and his fee isfive minas.”
Callias, son of Hipponicus recommends Evenus of Paros to Socrates as a Sophist teacher whose fee is five minas.
Compare this five minas to the price Socrates mentions at the end of the trial as potential penalty. Socrates says he can afford one mina while his friends could put up 30 minas for him.
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Yet I think it afine thing to be able to teach people as Gorgias of Leontini does, and Prodicus ofCeos, and Hippias of Elis.2
- [Editors:] These were all well-known Sophists. For Gorgias and Hippias see Plato’s dialogues named after them; both Hippias and Prodicus appear in Protagoras.
The editors call out these philosophers/teachers as Sophists. Compare where they appear in Protagoras.
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Socrates is accused of impiety. Several times throughout this piece there are various mention of god (singular) and gods (plural). Which is it? Is there a linguistic difference from the Greek to English and what effect, if any, is there on the culture being represented and how does that interact with Socrates' argument and position with respect to impiety?
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in making one’s defense, and cross-examine when no one answers.
Those who maliciously [d] and slanderously persuaded you—who also, when persuaded themselves then persuaded others—all those are most difficult to deal with: one cannot bring one of them into court or refute him; one must simply fight with shadows, as it were,
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It is right for me, gentlemen, to defend myself first against the first lyingaccusations made against me and my first accusers, and then against the lateraccusations and the later accusers.
Socrates defense will be broken up into two parts:<br /> - lying accusations by the first accusers<br /> - these are of the nature of rumors which he poses as untrue and which received no defense and fell on the ready ears of young and inexperienced people who presumably were indoctrinated unquestioningly<br /> - later accusations by later acusers (Meletus, et al.)
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concentrate your attention on whether what I say is just or not, forthe excellence of a judge lies in this, as that of a speaker lies in telling the truth.
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Socrates self-deprecatingly considers himself an unaccomplished speaker unless one re-defines the term entirely as someone who speaks the truth.
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Cooper, John M., and D. S. Hutchinson, eds. 1997. “Apology.” In Plato: Complete Works, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
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HB Lead Grades Explained + How to Select Right Pencil for Writing & Art<br /> by [[Unnecessary Detail]] on YouTube<br /> accessed on 2026-09-20T23:58:33
HB is typically the mid-point for most manufacturers <br /> H (hardness) tends to go lighter and scratchier (less graphite, more clay)<br /> B (darkness) tends to go darker and smoother (more graphite, less clay)<br /> F is typically a grade (fine/firm) between H and HB
For general writing look in the range of H / F / HB / B / 2B
Charcoal pencils tend to be much darker that clay/graphite pencils.
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