Remember these! by blinkings

Photography • Historical • posted on Oct 10, 2016

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IBM Electric typewriter from the 1950s.

Comments (11)

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A_Sunbeam

2:51AM | Mon, 10 October 2016

Too expensive for the ordinary bloke. I had an old pre-war Remington portable.

blinkings

3:26AM | Mon, 10 October 2016

Me too!

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giulband

4:24AM | Mon, 10 October 2016

Archeological !!!

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Maxidyne

4:45AM | Mon, 10 October 2016

State of the art.

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T.Rex

5:21AM | Mon, 10 October 2016

Remember? I sure do! You could hear it a block away! I've also typed with the old FACIT (Swedish) machines (both with the arms and with the rotating ball). BANG! BANG! BANG! Atetr a half hour - deaf, deaf, deaf! Wha... you talking to me? Thanks for the funny memories! :-)

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Faemike55

9:47AM | Mon, 10 October 2016

I learned typing on this and an old Royal manual

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helanker

10:40AM | Mon, 10 October 2016

I used a similar one only about 10 years ago in the museum, where I was drawing and discribing archeologic finds :)

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Richardphotos

10:53AM | Mon, 10 October 2016

I recall them and also Marchant calculators that weight probably 20 pounds . I used them during the late 60's as a draftsman for a steel fabrication .http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/marchant.html

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