1960 Smith Corona Silent Super #5T 754146X
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Garrison Aa (RooftopKitty)
Created: 07-21-2019 at 07:27PM
Last Edit: 04-26-2020 at 11:10AM
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Purchased from a nice young man who had previously named her Daisy. Why argue with a good thing, Daisy it is! One of the smoothest typewriters I have used. Excellent condition. Included the "holiday case".
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Hunter: Garrison Aa (RooftopKitty)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 140
Long time typewriter admirer, newly minted collector. I was part of the IBM Boca Raton team that built the PC XT, the PC AT and IBM PC DOS (IBM's version of MS DOS). Little did we know that we were contributing to the shift away from these beautiful machines.
In those days (1980's) every admin bay at work had two IBM Selectric typewriters and our supply cabinets had fresh boxes of ribbons and type elements for anyone to help themselves. If I only knew then ...
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