A GPO 741 dialphone was a wall mounted version of other dialphones from the General Post Office such as the 746, infact the 741's internals were based on the 746 with the chief difference being the handset cradle. Of course this has to go on top!
Dialing the 741 is very similar too though you are facing the dial instead of looking down.
Of course, the Brother Deluxe 1350 was the first typewriter in my collection, but i do have another Brother (typewriter that is!)
My Brother Deluxe 800 is not quite as aesthetically pleasing as the 1350 but is another very good typewriter. It works very well, except for the bell though warning you you are nearing the end of the line. This doesn't sound but otherwise there isn't anything wrong with the 800 which is a good solid feature rich portable typewriter.
I have bought carbon paper before but one of my recent typewriter purchases came with a pack of carbon sheets, British made for typewriting and cost 99 new pence. Which seems a lot to be honest relatively?
It is 1976 and you are an executive in a top international business, but you need one of those new fangled pocket calculation machines. Well Accuron have the machine for you, it's even called the Executive! It has the four basic mathematical functions plus percentages (important for executives no doubt) and a memory. Numbers are displayed using LEDs. Unfortunately my Accuron Executive does not seem to work anymore though i'm not an executive anyway so no harm done!
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!
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.
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.
I went the Birmingham Museum Depot open day today, tucked away in one of the storage lockers was this early IBM Electric typewriter.
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!
