1935 Smith Corona Silent #S1166469B
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Arlo Barnes (ArloJamesBarnes)
Created: 09-13-2018 at 08:30PM
Last Edit: 09-13-2018 at 08:30PM
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Description:
serial S1166469B impressed on block on back right behind platen
Got along with pedal organ for $100 from neighbor on Nextdoor.
Platen seems in good shape, platen rollers have some cracks.
proprietary ribbon dry
Some parts of black gloss finish faded by sun and dust, others still quite shiny.
has 5 tabulation keys: ., 10, 100, 1000, 10000
in column behind platen
Typeface Specimen:
Hunter: Arlo Barnes (ArloJamesBarnes)
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When my mom was secretary of the PTA of my (second) elementary school, someone gave her a Hermes Rocket to type the minutes so they would not have to read her handwriting. And her brother Michael, before he became my uncle, had a Smith Corona word processor he gifted me. Both of these I had years before my first computer, a gift from a teacher who was amused by the Egyptian-seriffed sheaves I would hand him but who needed editable electronic documents NOT on the SC's tiny floppies. I recall writing short stories on that word processor starring my friends and "binding" them with tapes and covers of cardboard with coloured tissue paper glued on. Good times.
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