On the wall

Time for a new arrival, this month it is another telephone from the General Post Office. This is a GPO 741 dialphone, which is intended to be mounted on the wall (indeed due to where the handset rests it can't really be used any other way!

Olympiette redux

Another updated typewriter video (i have a much better tripod now compared to when i did my earlier videos). Here is my Olympiette, my favourite typewriter.

Mysterious keys (10) : Section

Now this is not a mysterious key to everyone. The sign is often included on a Mac keyboard, though PC keyboards i have and use do not seem to have it. Not all typewriters have this sign either, but what is it? The section sign is used to reference individually numbered section or paragraphs of a document, often used with legal documents. Thus a reference to section 6 in a document may be written as §6. Double it up if you want to refer to multiple sections, for example §§2-5 means sections 2 through 5.

Below is the section sign on my Triumph-Adler Tippa.

IBM Electric

I went the Birmingham Museum Depot open day today, tucked away in one of the storage lockers was this early IBM Electric typewriter.

More on the Leader II

We have had the latest typewriter to join the collection, a Silver-Reed Leader II, for a couple of weeks now. The first impressions were that it was a very good typewriter in an almost as new condition, and second impressions back that up. Indeed, if it wasn't for the ribbon being almost worn out then it feels like the typewriter has been hardly ever used. An excellent addition to the collection therefore. but obviously it does need a new ribbon!