1973 Adler Tippa S #5649715
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Jonathan Crowe (mcwetboy)
Created: 10-30-2022 at 05:59PM
Last Edit: 10-30-2022 at 06:02PM
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Description:
Bought in October 2022 from a fellow collector who was kind of sad to see it go. Has the 11 cpi version of the Elite Cubic typeface.
This Tippa S is strikingly different from my other one, manufactured only a year earlier. Some time between the two machines the Tippa S was redesigned: it went from carriage shift to segment shift and gained a bit of height in the process. Carriage lock and carriage release, weak points in the earlier model, have been replaced with improved versions. The ribbon vibrator is different, and the clip-on case loses its Adler logo. More differences as I encounter them--there's probably a blog post in this.
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Jonathan Crowe blogs about maps at The Map Room and writes about science fiction and fantasy; his work has been published by AE, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Strange Horizons and Tor.com. He lives in Shawville, Quebec.
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