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On Purchasing Typewriters: Condition is King; Context is Queen

New typewriter enthusiasts will very often post to Reddit, one of the Facebook typewriter groups or other similar fora, something along the lines of: "I spotted this typewriter at an antique store. Good condition to buy?" and include a picture of some generic typewriter.

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@proedie I would have picked it up for nostalgia reasons. It was a machine my parents got me in the early 80s before I graduated to a Smith-Corona Clipper.

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@adactio Okay, I'm doing it today: finally ordering the Irish tin whistle, so I can eventually learn to play...

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@arisummerland Sorry to hear about some of the reasons for you exiting the space, but helping to rehome them can also be a joy. I enjoy repairing and restoring them, though I do love using them as well. I give them away to kids and young teenagers primarily or will occasionally part with some to collectors for a small profit that allows me to continue collecting and repairing. Good luck with your new typewriter project!

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@drj It's a Royal KMG made from '49-52 and many of the design elements were done by Henry Dreyfuss who redesigned the Quiet De Luxe at the same time. I've got a couple of them: https://boffosocko.com/tag/royal-kmg/

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@ranja You can if you must, but it's so much easier and even cheaper to buy new. My recommendations: https://boffosocko.com/research/typewriter-collection/#Typewriter%20Ribbon

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@AnthonyBaker Just be careful. One can quickly turn into fifty: https://typewriterdatabase.com/typewriters.php?hunter_search=7248&collection_search=My+Collection

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@CTNET Roughly the same way people have been doing for centuries: https://boffosocko.com/research/zettelkasten-commonplace-books-and-note-taking-collection/

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@drj
Type slugs commonly used for pharmacists' typewriters:
โ„ž is short hand Latin for recipere aka prescription
โ„ฅ (ounce)
โ„ˆ (scruple)
Gr is for grains, an older weight measurement used before the metric system. 437.5 grains to an ounce.

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@drj Are you adding in the all important typewriter glyphs for a pharmaceutical typewriter? https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1mg0qep/finally_got_an_apothecary_typewriter_im/ ounce, scruple, etc.?

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@dougs beating typewriter by one character...

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rupturewort

#typewriter

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@mattgemmell Option C: Left on and covered with a nice mylar or polypropylene book jacket cover to protect the book and the jacket. Brodart is having a sale btw: https://www.shopbrodart.com/Back-to-Library-Basics-Book-Jacket-Covers-sale

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@zloubida There's also this fun resource: https://indieweb.org/typecast

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@drj There are some who actively move them from typewriters to the computer publishing space: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-fonts.html
๐Ÿคฉ

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@drj Lots of typefaces to be found here: https://typecast.munk.org/category/typewriter-typestylesfonts/

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@quediuspayu @zloubida Fascinatingly no. There are still a few companies manufacturing new ones today. (Admittedly, they're not as high quality as they were in the 50s-60s, but then, what is?)

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@fubarx @zloubida Still lots of companies manufacturing ribbons. The harder part may be getting them cleaned out and serviced depending on how long they've sat idle.

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@briar Some resources hiding here for the cleaning/maintenance part, if you haven't found much: https://boffosocko.com/research/typewriter-collection/

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Educator, reader, inveterate note taker, biomedical engineer (he/him)

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I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history.

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I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.

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