Okay, hope for a nice showing at the Type-IN NYC tomorrow!
Poster for the NYC Type-IN
- OK, here’s the revised poster with complete info….
- — And here’s a pdf file to print out and stick up in cafes, thrift stores and English Departments! (And book stores, firehouses, typewriter repair shops, etc.)
- Type-IN1
PLEASE, RSVP via Comments, and let us know where you’re coming from, what typewriter(s) you are bringing and if any of them are for the swap. Me for example: Michael McGettigan–Philadelphia. Olivetti Lettera 32, Olympia SF to swap.
Thanks and hope to see lots of machines, and the people who love them on the 21st.
— mcget
“A JAM SESSION for manual typewriters and the people who love them.”
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April 7, 2013 · 10:34 pm
Alan Lomax’s SELECTRIC II up for sale
It’s beautiful, it’s blue and it belonged to the legendary musicologist and folklorist Alan Lomax.
On eBay right now, no bids yet, someone please buy it–so I don’t! Here’s the link.
And here’s the machine:
What a nice color… same as the one in the snowy field that Hunter S. Thompson menaced with a shiny pistol. This one probably had a much calmer existence!
Filed under IBM SELECTRIC, public typewriting
WSJ’s take on Typewriter “Appreciation”
Well, this May might be dubbed I.T.$A.M. , according to the Feb. 16 Wall Street Journal; they previewed an upcoming Cologne auction with some machines tabbed to bring $10 to $20 thou! That’s still well below the $254k Cormac McCarthy’s worn-out Lettera 32 fetched. Ha! I’ll give you a much better deal on mine–if I could just manage to wear it out typing a few best-sellers.
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