Typing on the Maritsa

Latest machine in the collection.

Selling typewriters (3)

Some more adverts from public domain sources.

Talking another telephone

The latest arrival in the collection of junk retro office equipment is this telephone. Now this may look like the dialphones i have already got but is in fact a GPO 706L! In future posts i will explain the differences between this and my 746s.

Busicom ribbon

My Busicom 1210PD is a fine desktop calculator with a working printer... well it made a noise anyway but because the ribbon was completely spent i couldn't be sure on that score. I have fitted a new ribbon to the calculator, a pretty simple operation to be honest and can happily report that the printer works very well. Black and red ink is available, and it also prints lozenges!

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!