A store in Florence was featuring these today. Unfortunately potato camera phone... but still..
typewriters galore
- matt3o
- -[°_°]-
- Location: Italy
- Main keyboard: WhiteFox
- Main mouse: Anywhere MX
- Favorite switch: Anything, really
- DT Pro Member: 0030
- Contact:
- seebart
- Offtopicthority Instigator
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: Rotation
- Main mouse: Steelseries Sensei
- Favorite switch: IBM capacitive buckling spring
- DT Pro Member: 0061
- Contact:
Wow, I like the round "ergo" one and the red one. Thanks for sharing.
- snuci
- Vintage computer guy
- Location: Ontario, Canada
- DT Pro Member: 0131
- Contact:
Very cool! I like the same ones Seebart liked. Thanks for sharing.
- vivalarevolución
- formerly prdlm2009
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: IBM Beam spring
- Main mouse: Kangaroo
- Favorite switch: beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0097
There are a few big typewriter collectors in Italy. One guy had a wonderful website (which I cannot remember). I wonder if these are part of his collection.
- snuci
- Vintage computer guy
- Location: Ontario, Canada
- DT Pro Member: 0131
- Contact:
This one? http://www.scrittura-meccanica.it/colle ... rivere.phpvivalarevolución wrote: ↑One guy had a wonderful website (which I cannot remember). I wonder if these are part of his collection.
Nice collection.
- matt3o
- -[°_°]-
- Location: Italy
- Main keyboard: WhiteFox
- Main mouse: Anywhere MX
- Favorite switch: Anything, really
- DT Pro Member: 0030
- Contact:
O_____________________________O
- Halvar
- Location: Baden, DE
- Main keyboard: IBM Model M SSK / Filco MT 2
- Favorite switch: Beam & buckling spring, Monterey, MX Brown
- DT Pro Member: 0051
The creativity that went into typewriters in the early 1900s was astonishing. Thanks for sharing!
There's a superb collection in the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn, I think Heinz Nixdorf began collecting typewriters in his lifetime already. If anyone visits Paderborn for whatever reason, by all means visit this museum, it's truely unique.
http://www.hnf.de/en/museum/5/schreibma ... ndard.html
There's a superb collection in the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn, I think Heinz Nixdorf began collecting typewriters in his lifetime already. If anyone visits Paderborn for whatever reason, by all means visit this museum, it's truely unique.
http://www.hnf.de/en/museum/5/schreibma ... ndard.html
- vivalarevolución
- formerly prdlm2009
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: IBM Beam spring
- Main mouse: Kangaroo
- Favorite switch: beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0097
That us an impressive collection.snuci wrote: ↑This one? http://www.scrittura-meccanica.it/colle ... rivere.phpvivalarevolución wrote: ↑One guy had a wonderful website (which I cannot remember). I wonder if these are part of his collection.
Nice collection.
Not sure. I think it was something like typewriterstory or somethumg like that. I wish that I could remember his name. I remember his website had more reviews and blog posts and was less of a photo collection. His wife was also was quite attractive.
- vivalarevolución
- formerly prdlm2009
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: IBM Beam spring
- Main mouse: Kangaroo
- Favorite switch: beam spring
- DT Pro Member: 0097
Yea, the brainpower, engineering, and design that went into typewriters during their heyday was quite amazing. Each factory employed thousands of people at peak production. Imagine all the brainpower currently in the computer and software industries in the typewriter industry. That's how you get these machines so well designed that they work perfectly fine decades later.Halvar wrote: ↑The creativity that went into typewriters in the early 1900s was astonishing. Thanks for sharing!
There's a superb collection in the Heinz Nixdorf Museum in Paderborn, I think Heinz Nixdorf began collecting typewriters in his lifetime already. If anyone visits Paderborn for whatever reason, by all means visit this museum, it's truely unique.
http://www.hnf.de/en/museum/5/schreibma ... ndard.html