Chris Aldrich

Acquired 5 x 8 (Hunt Manufacturing Co., Lit-Ning Products Division) 8 5/8 x 5 3/4 x 4 1/8" exterior dimensions putty color This seemed like a nice way to enter the exciting world of 5 x 8″ index cards.

Replied to Ames Segment Pick by Anthony Hereld (noctisadversaria.com) I ordered a segment pick from Bremerton Typewriter Company several weeks ago.

I went searching at Star Typewriters yesterday for a nice mid-century Adler Universal.

Replied to So What’s all this Indieweb and Webmentions stuff?

As I was scrolling along yesterday, a post about the lovely Professional Elite typeface popped up in my feed on Reddit.

Replied to My New Baby – Olympia SM3 with Professional Elite Font by Tom Fasano (Tom Fasano) Tom, a hello from my typewriter to yours!

Usually I’m so busy chatting and marveling when I visit Helmut that I totally forget to take a few photos.

Hot take: Is it just me or has the word “snappy” ceased having meaning within the typosphere?

I often see typewriter enthusiasts “debating” over which is the prettiest or best typeface, and often, they’re making their judgement on one machine they happen to have or really wish they had.

Phrase of the year: “emotional support typewriter”!

What I wouldn’t give to have some popular cookbooks like Rombauer’s The Joy of Cooking, Bittman’s How to Cook Everything, Better Homes & Gardens’ New Cook Book, Brown’s Good Eats, America’s Test Kitchen books, or Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street published

I’m slowly closing in on a completist collection of Royal standard typewriters.

1971 was a year of change.

Acquired 1971 Hermes 3000 (3rd Generation) Portable Typewriter (Paillard S.A.

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Acquired 1959 Olympia SM3 portable typewriter (Olympia-Werke AG) Serial number: 1477358 Professional Elite No. 41 typeface, 11 pitch, 2.3m/m, 6 lines/inch, bichrome, carriage shift, tabulator American keyboard, 44 keys, 88 characters green crinkle paint,…

Acquired Wooden Letter Tray (Harry C.

You just picked up a dusty, but somewhat functional Olympia SM3 and you know that you need to replace the rubber body bushings to prevent your carriage from hitting the body panels and scratching the paint job.

Acquired Lit-Ning Model 1K Card Index for 2 x 3.5" Cards Overall dimensions: 3.5 x 4.5 x 8" I picked up this vintage card index meant for filing business cards on July 20th for a fantastic $1.50.

Acquired A-Z (1-25) Gray Pressboard 1/5 Cut Tab File Guides, Letter Sized (Oxford Pendaflex) 25/Set (PN 925) I saw these while browsing through a thrift store and correctly clocked them as thick tabbed dividers though the person who rang them up for $1.50…

I’ve been thinking about typewriter stationery and carbon copies lately, as has our friend Joe Van Cleave.

Acquired 1971 Sears Newport Portable Typewriter (Messa Typewriter ) Serial number: 5124993 Sears Model No. 405-5295 (Pica) carriage shift; bichrome; 3 touch select settings; tabulator; 13" wide carriage; key de-jammer; carriage lock; 44 keys & 88 characte…

Bookmarked Bookmarklet for IndieBookClub.biz by Marty McGuire (martymcgui.re) I once offered gRegor to write up a bookmarklet for turning Bookshop.org book pages into want-to-read (or currently-reading or finished-reading) posts on your own site with Micr…

Yesterday at the QWERTY Typewriter Festival in Carson, CA, Bryan Mahoney of The Typin’ Pint released Issue 01 of his new zine Clack!

The Spring issue of Etcetera: Journal of the Typewriter Collectors’ Association arrived in the mail today!

Acquired Early 1900s Wooden Woodstock Standard Typewriter Shipping Crate (Woodstock Typewriter Company, Woodstock, ILL, U.S.A.)

Tonight, I noticed you can’t spell typewriter in German without IBM: SchreIBMaschinen.

Quoted a movie line by Frank Navasky (YOU’VE GOT MAIL (Warner Bros., 1998)) “Now listen to this.

Shohei Ohtani, a designated hitter and pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, is one of the biggest superstars in baseball right now.

RSVPed Attending QWERTY!

Acquired Typewriter Segment Pick (Bremerton Typewriter Company) A recreation of the Ames Supply Co.

In a pre-web analog world, this is what a CMS really was.

The Stanley Kramer comedy classic film It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (United Artists, 1963) has a handful of Royal KMG typewriters featured in the office settings at police stations throughout the film.

Acquired 1977 Olympia Report de Luxe Electric Portable Typewriter (SKE Model) (Olympia-Werke AG) Serial Number: 46-0171787 Olympia Pica No. 12 typeface, 10 pitch, 2.6m/m, 6 lines/inch, keyset tabulator, half-space spacing, vertical spacing, portable, bich…

Acquired 1938 Woodstock No. 5 Standard typewriter (Woodstock) Serial Number: 8-12-512178E Elite (12 CPI), 6 lines/inch, bichrome, keyset tabulator, typebar hood, 12" carriage, carriage shift, American keyboard, 42 keys, 84 characters, foundry marks: alpha:

The question “How do you use your typewriter(s)?”

Acquired 1947 Underwood SS Rhythm Touch Standard Typewriter (Underwood Corporation) Serial Number: 11-6139621 Underwood Pica typeface, 10 pitch, 6 lines/inch; bichrome, segment shift, American keyboard, 42 keys, 84 characters in black crinkle paint with b…

Had some Cuzcatlan brand Cola Champagne (aka kola shanpan) at a Salvadoran restaurant the other day.

Acquired Dovetailed Wooden Card Index for 4 x 6" Index Cards Exterior dimensions: 6 11/16 x 4 13/16 x 3 15/16" Unknown manufacturer Picked up at thrift for $2.39.

Acquired 1962 Olympia SM7 Portable Typewriter (Olympia Werke A.G.)

I watched the fascinating documentary Best of Enemies: Buckley vs.

Acquired Midcentury Oak Modular Library Card Catalog 30 drawers of filing space for 3x5 inch index cards.

Acquired Odell No. 4 Index Typewriter and Wooden Case (Farquhar & Albrecht, 378-388 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL) Serial Number: none Circa 1904 I’ve slowed way down on acquisitions in my typewriter collection, but when I saw this magnificent exemplar with…