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1955 Rooy portable Serial # 35296 1955 Rooy portable typewriter, Serial # 35296 Alfred Kaltenecker's 1955 Rooy portable typewriter. 2020-05-20 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Alfred Kaltenecker: 1955 Rooy portable Serial # 35296 Flattest of the ultaportables (Le Rooy c'est moi!)

French masterpiece, French AZERTY-keyboard.

Very exciting piece of pleasure, 'folding' into its case. Closed only 4,1 centimeters high!

Two interesting details:

- No bell :-(

- The window on the bottom of the real typewriter mechanism opens on pressing the keys. Otherwise there wouldn't be enough space for the key levers.
Clever!

1955 Rooy portable #35296

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Alfred Kaltenecker (alfredklt)
Created: 08-24-2017 at 10:02AM
Last Edit: 05-20-2020 at 12:31PM


Description:

Flattest of the ultaportables (Le Rooy c'est moi!)

French masterpiece, French AZERTY-keyboard.

Very exciting piece of pleasure, 'folding' into its case. Closed only 4,1 centimeters high!

Two interesting details:

- No bell :-(

- The window on the bottom of the real typewriter mechanism opens on pressing the keys. Otherwise there wouldn't be enough space for the key levers.
Clever!

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Hunter: Alfred Kaltenecker (alfredklt)

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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 880

Collector with typewriter virus living in Austria. Fourty years ago typewriters were only standard office equipment for me. I was really glad to get my first but simple word processors in the early Eighties with delete, copy/paste and whatever wonderful functions. This fascination is over. Now I have returned to real mechanics.
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