27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
11:26 a.m.
On 09/27/2012 01:00 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 barythrin at gmail.com wrote:
A friend of the family is a somewhat well-known typewriter collector.
Most of the machines in his collection are more than a century old.
Keep in mind that ours is a very young field, compared to most other
stuff. A 40-year-old computer is a big deal...a 40-year-old typewriter
is something someone will probably still be using and not thinking of as
anything particularly "antique"-like.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
C:\DERP> So why little or no interest in an
IBM?
How old is it?
I had one, and had difficulty giving it away. But that was an electric.
The collectible ones are generally MUCH older than that, although there
does seem to be some interest in the WW2 portables.