1968 Olympia SM9 #3500473
Status: My Collection
Hunter: William OLLIVIER (guneeyoufix)
Created: 06-03-2025 at 06:42AM
Last Edit: 06-05-2025 at 12:45AM
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Description:
10 CPI (even a bit less, around 9.7. The paper scale is 80 characters for an A4 piece of paper (8.3 inches wide)).
Medium grey keys with a "special" UK keyboard layout (2 dead keys and usual UK fractions removed). Works flawlessly, but a sea of whiteout flakes inside.
Typeface Specimen:
Hunter: William OLLIVIER (guneeyoufix)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 630
Software engineer by day, and typewriter newbie by night.
I got my first typewriter when I was a child, one of the kid's plastic ones, but was not satisfied.
I moved on the first real one, a portable Silver-Reed Silverette S, which I still own today, and use once in a while.
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