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In a fit of web connectivismo, have posted a small, dry listing on WIKIPEDIA titled “Type-In.”

Let the modifying, addifying, or just dignifying begin. (do feel free to add valid links, refs, chutes, ladders, etc., as it’s my first-ever wikifying)

Search for Type-In, or, er just go to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type-In

cheers,

–mcget

PS  — there’s  a small entry for Typecasting–but nothing yet for “Typosphere” — so , hey, hope someone gets a definition up there in the cloud.

Greetings… just came back from a typewriter heaven of sorts…

here’s just a glance at about 1/5 of the collection…

Olivers, Royals, Remingtons and more....

A very nice man, Mr. Chico, is moving house, some years after closing his typewriter business.   I bought more than a dozen portables, but he still has many, many big, classic, and vintage desktops, and some IBM and Adler and etc. electrics–and a lot of mechanical adding machines.

Not shown, many many more electric adding machines, checkwriters and etc.

Here’s the rub. His place has to be cleared out by Wednesday, March 16 — the next day, a broker will buy everything that’s left at his property.

He would like to sell more machines, but only to someone who’s going to buy a decent number at a time; I don’t think he has time to meet people for onesies and twosies….

His place is about 35 miles northwest of Philadelphia, about 20 minutes from Conshohocken exit of I-76 in PA.

SO… one — go look at these pics–most of the machines are for sale–but not all, such as a few of the super rare ones….

here’s a gallery of pics I made quickly there….

http://gallery.me.com/michaelmcgettigan#100327

If you think you can come down to Philadelphia, pronto, and are ready to snag a lot of these machines for cash,  please email me at phillytyper@gmail.com, and I will pass along his tel. I can’t get into what I think he will charge, but based on what I paid for the ones I got, he’s very fair. Do be ready to see some cool machines that you can’t buy, as he’s not selling them all! He also has 45 jam jars full of typewriter spares and two cabinets of spare parts as well, for any repair techs out there.

cheers

–mcget

With just 90 minutes before the first International Typewriter Appreciation Month closes, here’s a sheet that’s traveled through all my typers

For pictures to match, see “Too Many Typers?”, above.  Cheers, mcget.

One sheet, a dozen platens, er, a few typos.