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Metal, Ink, and Monospacing - May 10, 2017

Weekly curated news and items of interest for typewriter enthusiasts. Metal, Ink, and Monospacing Enjoy this week's articles! Boomer entrepreneurs are making it big by doing what they love A study suggests baby boomers are nearly twice as likely to launch ventures as millennials. Read More IBM Selectric II Typewriter | Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog Right near the entrance to the new Contemporary Design gallery, proudly displayed is an electric typewriter, a big blue IBM Selectric II. Read More The benefits of the manual typewriter - sarah-beth.watkins We are used to using computers and laptops, but what about manual typewriters? There are still great benefits to using a manual typewriter. In this article, we have a look at what...

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Metal, Ink, and Monospacing - April 26, 2017

Weekly curated news and items of interest for typewriter enthusiasts. Metal, Ink, and Monospacing Enjoy this week's articles! Long live the typewriter | ANZ BlueNotes ANZ BlueNotes. The typewriter might be 150 year old technology but like the vinyl LP, it’s staving off extinction with avid devotees keeping it alive. Read More Tom Hanks: Typewriter Technology ‘Can Never be Hacked by Forces of Evil’ This summer, actor Tom Hanks will promote the advantages of typewriter technology in a new documentary. Read More First Look at the Retro 'Freewrite' Smart Typewriter | News & Opinion | PCMag.com With its old-school look and e-ink display, Freewrite wants you to stay focused on your writing. This being 2017, though, your musings are automatically...

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Metal, Ink, and Monospacing - April 13, 2017

Weekly curated news and items of interest for typewriter enthusiasts. Metal, Ink, and Monospacing Enjoy this week's articles! The Big Read: ‘It’s a throwaway world in which we live today. I simply can’t do that’ « Jersey Evening Post For four decades, David Wood has been mending sewing machines and typewriters. He believes he may be the last of his kind in Jersey. David Edbrooke went to his shop-cum-museum to meet him Typewriters are still not dead! Clare Sebastian reports from Gramercy Typewriters, where customers of all ages are interested in the machines in spite of more modern alternatives. There’s a Typewriter Orchestra, and It’s Pretty Incredible | Nerdist It's no longer that uncommon to see a typewriter in a...

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Metal, Ink, and Monospacing - March 28, 2017

Weekly curated news and items of interest for typewriter enthusiasts. Metal, Ink, and Monospacing Enjoy this week's articles! Second Annual Kentucky Typer Type-In Attend our second annual type-in in downtown Lexington, KY! Refreshments, vintage typewriters, door prizes, and a  typewriter repair workshop will all be a part of the event! Mercerville typewriter shop becomes go-to prop place for Hollywood | MercerSpace.com Most vintage typewriters you’ll see in Hollywood films—like Hidden Figures—came straight from Karl Business Machines in Hamilton. Atascadero journalist still has a love affair with the typewriter | The Tribune The typewriter holds a special place in Atascadero columnist Lon Allan’s heart. He used it for 30 years as a student, journalist and teacher. Pasadena Now » From Typewriters...

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Metal, Ink, and Monospacing - March 16, 2017

Weekly curated news and items of interest for typewriter enthusiasts. Metal, Ink, and Monospacing Some interesting articles this week on typewriters and the military along with a Collectors Weekly interview with Richard Polt. A Shortage of Typewriters Threatened America’s War Effort in the 1940s Tens of thousands of people found employment in Washington, D.C. during World War II in newly-created defense jobs. According to WETA public television, “between 1940 and 1945, the number of… Typewriter Collector Richard Polt on More Than a Century of QWERTY | Collectors Weekly In this interview, Richard Polt talks about collecting typewriters, from the early experimental machines of the 1890s to more modern postwar... "Mill" - Typewriter for Navy Radiomen copying CW (Morse Code) manually...

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