197X Olivetti RITA #9865298
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Jerry Himes (JJH)
Created: 09-02-2024 at 05:59AM
Last Edit: 09-03-2024 at 06:01AM
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Description:
Probably Spanish-made Olivetti DORA, but for some reason renamed to RITA. The only examples I've seen online have been from Finland, except one from Estonia, and even that had the same keyboard layout. Wonderful to type with, but the bell is very quiet on this particular machine, even quieter than usual for Olivetti ultra-portables; so quiet in fact, that you cannot hear it over the typing noise. Sadly cleaning the mechanism and bending the hammer a bit did nothing to help with the problem.
Standard Pica typeface and the modern Finnish Standard keyboard layout.
I did not get this for myself, so it probably won't stay in the collection for long.
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Hunter: Jerry Himes (JJH)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 660
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 will probably start selling and giving away some of my machines after I figure out which ones are most useful to me. Some people have asked me for a working typewriter, so I have been on the lookout for machines purely for that purpose as well.
Machines sold/given away:
Triumph Gabriele 20
Hermes 3000 (3rd gen., French)
Student (Brother) Deluxe 850TR
Optima (Zentronik) Mod. 42
Scheidegger (Olivetti) President
Olympia SG 3 N
Reviews done so far:
Erika Daro Model 41
Hermes 3000 (3rd gen.)
Olivetti Lettera 32
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