Showing posts with label Adsit Graduate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adsit Graduate. Show all posts

Saturday, 15 June 2024

Mysterious keys (11) : More margin-release variants

As we have seen earlier, there are a number of different ways which typewriter manufacturers denoted a key as being for margin-release, to let the margins be overrided. Here are two more variants.


The Triumph-Adler Tippa uses a simple double-ended arrow to show that the margins can be exceeded. A nice solution though perhaps some ambiguity for new users.


The Adsit Graduate though has decided to keep it as simple and straight forward as possible and just mark a key with M-R!

Wednesday, 16 November 2022

Showcase (3) : Adsit Graduate

This is an attractive and light weight portable typewriter from the 1970s, the Adsit Graduate is in fact a product of Smith-Corona as it states on the back of the machine. The typewriter is a British made and locally branded version of the Smith-Corona Corsair

The typewriter doesn't work too well unfortunately, a number of hammers get stuck including the letter A which is awkward (especially as you can't even type the word). The typewriter looks to be overall in decent condition though and largely mechanically sound so it may be fixable.