1981 IBM Correcting Selectric II #26 7034966
Status: My Collection
Hunter: PapaGottlieb vonZinzendorf (PapaGottlieb)
Created: 03-15-2024 at 07:10AM
Last Edit: 05-08-2024 at 02:03PM
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Nicknamed "Tan Stan"
For a fellow such as myself, who has the merits of manual maschine over and over again touted, having an electric (and moreover, one that pleases so) seems an incongruity. But the Selectrics is its own animal, not just an electric. It is a beautiful beast. Likely I will never own any other sorts of electrical typewriters (I just don't care for them), but I will always want my Correcting Selectric II and I will travel 17 hours for a repairman if I find it necessary.
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Hunter: PapaGottlieb vonZinzendorf (PapaGottlieb)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
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Ja, I am happy a collector of Schreibmaschine to be, und to hunt them down like dogs for my collection to have. My erste Schreibmachine I have fondly remembered was an old American Royal portable -- 1930s? How I got this one, where it came from, I cannot recall -- und so on a QWERTY to type learnt. Happily, most of my Maschinen now have the QWERTZ, und so for the deutsche Maschinen mostly I look, though I do not despise the qualität-built amerikanischer Maschinen.
I not only am collecting, but I use each one in my epistolary endeavors. If the revolution is being typwritten, then we must be about our business typing.
Ich liebe meine Frau; ich liebe meinen Hund; ich liebe eine Erika. Warum? Ich liebe Worte, Qualität, und Präzision!
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