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Real Mail & a Personal Update - Kentucky Typer
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A typecasting blog focused on my love of vintage typewriters (among other things). November 11, 2013. Real Mail and a Personal Update. You know what this is? Yes, thats correct - its REAL MAIL! And with my name on it! Ive had time for letter writing mostly because Ive been trying to recover from some pretty severe bronchitis. Ive had two bouts of it back to back, four rounds of antibiotics all over the last two months. The local pharmacy and doctor are loving me these days. Nov 11, 2013 7:02:54 PM.
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Writers | writelephant
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To err is human, to typewrite err, divine. Posts from the “. Quite A Good Two Finger Typist. Posted on September 13, 2016. In the first volume of his memoirs. Quite A Good Time To Be Born (1935 – 1975). English novelist and academic. Gives an interesting account of his two years of National Service as an army clerk:. A British make perhaps hoping to be associated or confused with the more famous firm of. It served me well for many years.”. So four sheets of carbon paper had to be inserted into the Oliver...
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The Music of Words | writelephant
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To err is human, to typewrite err, divine. The Music of Words. Posted on March 11, 2015. This badge was sent to me as a gift from my sister in England (thoughtful sibling that she is). It neatly combines two of my interests: Typewriters and Haruki Murakami. Normally, you wouldn’t find the two together. An exception are the type bars on this cover of. Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words,. In an excerpt from Rubin’s book, Murakami describes his writing style thus:. 8220;… Their [Japanese readers] ...
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Empire | writelephant
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To err is human, to typewrite err, divine. Posts tagged “. We Shall Type On The Beaches …. Posted on May 19, 2015. Posted on July 12, 2014. Quite A Good Two Finger Typist. Lost in the system. The Less Ugly One. The Importance of Not Being Earnest. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Follow writelephant on WordPress.com. To Type, Shoot Straight, and…. Machines Of Loving Grace. Click, Clack, DING! Fountain Pens and Typewriters.
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Barcelona Gold | writelephant
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To err is human, to typewrite err, divine. Posted on June 4, 2015. Long before Woody Allen wrote the screenplay for. Vicky, Christina, Barcelona. Rebecca Hall is superb as. So how come she didn’t get top billing? I’ve wanted to visit Barcelona. Not that I can really afford such a trip. What I can afford to do (just) is fritter my hard-earned dollars on Barcelona-related items like this 1972 typewriter …. Apparently, Woody prefers his typewriters topless. I may have raised expectations in my last post.
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To err is human, to typewrite err, divine. Posted on September 16, 2016. The blurring of the boundary between man and machine is nothing new to the typosphere. Recently, Joe V posted about A.I. of the blue mechanical kind, and included a typescript written on – indeed. 8211; his Brother Webster XL747. We also saw a robot at the start of the “ California Typewriter. 8221; video teaser that Richard P shared. Less recently, I described the “robotic” feel of an electric (typebar) typewriter. Quite A Good Tim...
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To err is human, to typewrite err, divine. Posts tagged “. Posted on March 5, 2016. A search for “Milan Typewriter” revealed the existence of the. Associazone Culturale Umberto di Donato. Museo Della Macchina de Scrivere. Created by author, typewriter collector and enthiusiast,. The museum has more than 1500 pieces. For more museum images click here. Umberto’s first book. La Penna il Tasto e il Mouse. The Pen, the Key, and the Mouse) was published in 2009. Typewriters are for everyone, real or imagined.
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Japanese Letteras | writelephant
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To err is human, to typewrite err, divine. Posted on August 4, 2015. When I fabricated Haruki Murakami’s Olivetti typewriter. In a recent post, I should have opted for a Lettera DL. For some reason, it’s the most common European typewriter on the Japanese Yahoo auction site. This one popped up on Australian Gumtree for a very reasonable $40, and only minutes away from my work address, so I snapped it up. The typewriter and the case are in excellent condition. Description of his Olivetti Lettera DL. DLs w...
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To err is human, to typewrite err, divine. Posts tagged “. Olivetti and the Seven Dwarfs. Posted on September 2, 2016. The term “IBM and the Seven Dwarfs” was coined in 1965 and reflected IBM’s domination of the computer industry. 8220;Seven Dwarf” computer systems were incompatible with IBM systems, the de facto standard at the time, and this made selling against IBM in the commercial data processing market a nigh impossible task. The “Seven” were. Ruined any prospect of a happy ending? Under her wing a...
