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1969 Olympia SF Serial # 5-1826204 1969 Olympia SF typewriter, Serial # 5-1826204 Jerry Himes's 1969 Olympia SF typewriter. 2024-10-14 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Jerry Himes: 1969 Olympia SF Serial # 5-1826204 Another nice Olympia ultra-portable with a soft platen, very clean print and a very nice type action. Despite the black keyboard, at first I thought it must be from the early sixties based on the slightly different and more expensive looking bodywork style, but to my surprise the serial number places it in 1969, the same as my SF de Luxe. Sadly the white body has yellowed heavily (and unevenly), but it looks like something that should come off once I figure out the correct product/method for it.

Ironically, while this one apparently isn't a "de Luxe" SF like my other SF is, as it doesn't have the crowned S-symbol, it seems like the more luxurious of the two for the following reasons:
1. The faux leather case is brown instead of black. This makes it look somewhat fancier to me for some reason.
2. As far as I can see, it has the same set of features, including the touch control.
3. The bodywork seems to be more expensively made, similar to the early SFs (this is easy to see from the front corners around the space bar).
4. It features a nice chrome plate below the horizontally straight lid/ribbon cover (it's heavily angled on the de Luxe), which made me think it's an earlier machine at first, although the black keyboard also made me wonder if somebody had swapped an older bodywork to a late SF., but apparently this is not the case.

All this makes me wonder why did Olympia apparently bother to make the same machine with two slightly different body styles (until the change into the Traveller), and under several different names as well.

1969 Olympia SF #5-1826204

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Jerry Himes (JJH)
Created: 10-14-2024 at 02:17PM
Last Edit: 10-14-2024 at 11:27PM

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Another nice Olympia ultra-portable with a soft platen, very clean print and a very nice type action. Despite the black keyboard, at first I thought it must be from the early sixties based on the slightly different and more expensive looking bodywork style, but to my surprise the serial number places it in 1969, the same as my SF de Luxe. Sadly the white body has yellowed heavily (and unevenly), but it looks like something that should come off once I figure out the correct product/method for it.

Ironically, while this one apparently isn't a "de Luxe" SF like my other SF is, as it doesn't have the crowned S-symbol, it seems like the more luxurious of the two for the following reasons:
1. The faux leather case is brown instead of black. This makes it look somewhat fancier to me for some reason.
2. As far as I can see, it has the same set of features, including the touch control.
3. The bodywork seems to be more expensively made, similar to the early SFs (this is easy to see from the front corners around the space bar).
4. It features a nice chrome plate below the horizontally straight lid/ribbon cover (it's heavily angled on the de Luxe), which made me think it's an earlier machine at first, although the black keyboard also made me wonder if somebody had swapped an older bodywork to a late SF., but apparently this is not the case.

All this makes me wonder why did Olympia apparently bother to make the same machine with two slightly different body styles (until the change into the Traveller), and under several different names as well.

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I have been looking for ways to spend less time on electronic devices, and because of this I started doing my writing and translation work with pens and pencils, and now on typewriters as well. I have noticed that adding typewriters to the process has been beneficial to the quality of the text, plus it's just more fun this way.

I have started selling and giving away some of my machines now that I have figured out which ones I want to keep. Some people have asked me for working typewriters, so I have been on the lookout for machines purely for that purpose as well. As fun and instructive as it has been, soon it is time to finish this collecting and tinkering and move back to my original intention: writing. I hope.

If you need to contact me, my email is jere.hyrsky(at)gmail.com.


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