27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
11:35 a.m.
On 09/27/2012 10:07 AM, Fred Cisin wrot
I used one from that vintage in high school. The smell
was awesome,
but some of that was because my father never used the right oil when
he used it.
When I was in college, I visited a collector (actually, he collected
lots of stuff) of typewriters. He had a wonderful collection of
specimens with two keyboards (upper and lower-case), typewriters where
you couldn't see what you were typing (the platen faced downwards) and
lots of variations. Those would probably be worth real money today.
He also put out the local weekly advertising circular using an old
Linotype hot-type machine, complete with gas-fired burner for the metal
pot. I got to play with it some--operating one of those is not like
typing at all. For one thing, the keys are in the wrong order...
I guess the moral is "buy a farm, live to a ripe old age, never move
house and collect like crazy" .
--Chuck