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7 Olympia typewriters, covering ~25 years of the company's history and maybe 150 pounds when you count cases and all. A good bit of that is the fatass in the back, the big old SG3.

I suppose I should have taken an angle to show exactly how big it is next to the ultraportables up front... but, well, I've got the whole weekend.

Left to right, back to front: 1960s SM9, SG3, 1970s SM9, SM3, SM7, Traveller Deluxe (TBM), SF.

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Mood: Winter Downs ~triple3spin Oct 9, 2009, 2:18:08 PM
Interesting photo. Is this a collectible ?

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~Bakelite Oct 9, 2009, 2:31:39 PM
Y'mean the typewriters? I use all of those... some more than others, but at one point I've banged something out with all of them.

Olympia had a real good thing going right from the end of WWII until the end of large-scale typewriter use, so I pick them up when I get the chance.
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~triple3spin Oct 9, 2009, 2:34:43 PM
Yeah I am a fan of a written word !

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*RalfMaximus Oct 9, 2009, 6:58:33 PM
You have absolutely the BEST typewriter porn ever. EVER.
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~Bakelite Oct 11, 2009, 9:44:44 AM
Why, thank you!

I was gonna do a similar one with my Royals, and then another with the Smith-Coronas, but it was kind of a pain to move all 7 Olys around. I think I'll do the Royals next weekend, and the Smiths after that...
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*RalfMaximus Oct 11, 2009, 6:44:56 PM
Watch you don't injure your back. Dying of thirst surrounded by typewriters would suck.
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~Bakelite Oct 11, 2009, 7:43:36 PM
There could be worse fates... I think that, if I trapped with the typewriters, I could just drop the SG3 on my head, and that would be about it... :lol:

Worst thing ever would be having to subsist on that stuff that comes out of typewriters after they've sat for a while... like compacted skin, ink, and cigarette ash, held together by sweat and correction tape. Naaaaasty.
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*RalfMaximus Oct 13, 2009, 5:18:37 AM
I'd never even considered that, but it makes sense. Every coupla months I get a wild hair and clean my keyboard (a rebuilt IBM clunker, mostly metal -- you could beat somebody to death with it then type your confession note afterwards) and ALL THIS STUFF comes out. And I'm not even one of those sorts to eat near the thing.

I suspect it's alive.
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~Bakelite Oct 25, 2009, 8:29:18 AM
IBM made manuals? I'm interested...

But yeah, some of the stuff that comes out of my typewriters I just can't understand. I mean, correction tape crap is okay. Eraser crumbs are okay. Cigarette ash, a bit of dust - fine, those were the times. But I see mounds of crap in all different colors and sometimes it's sort of scary because I wonder what kind of basement from Hell it's been sitting in for the past 30 years.
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