1968 Hermes 3000 #3495941
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Garrison Aa (RooftopKitty)
Created: 07-08-2019 at 10:19PM
Last Edit: 07-08-2019 at 10:19PM
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Description:
Ebay purchase, my first Hermes. Typed beautifully right off the bat. The only issue is that the paper bail containing the mysterious red ribbon is loose on both ends. The ribbon still works and moves accurately, but the entire bail attachment points on both ends needs to be reattached.
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Hunter: Garrison Aa (RooftopKitty)
Garrison Aa's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
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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