1982 Olivetti Lettera 36 #tbc - anyone know where they are on this model?
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Brett Manuel (BrettM)
Created: 04-21-2022 at 12:23AM
Last Edit: 07-08-2022 at 06:41AM
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I recently aquired this one to complete a little collection of Olivetti typewriters - this one is the electric. (My other two are portable and electronic). If I had more space I'd be tempted to get a standard Olivetti to make it a complete set :-) It's recently had a service and a clean and works really well. It has no signs of damage or wear and is in the original travel hard case. It was manufactured in Germany. It was originally purchased in Australia at Kmart for A$194 in 1982
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Hunter: Brett Manuel (BrettM)
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I’ve always been a bit fascinated by typewriters - and the skill of being able to touch type - starting with my grandparents probably around 4 or 5 on their Commodore machine which was probably from the 1950s. I got my first typewriter, a second hand Olivetti DORA when I was 12. And I still have it. Whilst my parents thought I was just a bit obsessive, they actually got on board with the whole typing thing when they realised that in my efforts to have a beautifully clean typed page, I was actually paying attention to my spelling. And so, my previously horrendous spelling, actually became quite good. Along the way I went to business college and had to chuckle when the typing teacher was a little put out when the best typist (70+wpm) in her class was a guy! I think she commented along the lines of, “come on girls, how can you let a boy with these big fat fingers beat you all!?” I now have 3 Olivetti’s in my collection - a manual, an electric and an electronic. I recently purchased two more - an Olympia SM9 which is the portable version of the desktop model that we had in typing class in middle school and a Brother which was a typewriter I used when my friend and I did homework at his house. And probably my fave of the all … the big mumma - IBM Selectric III.
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