1983 IBM Personal Typewriter #6126-11-0067868
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Mark McGrath (mtmcgrath)
Created: 01-13-2024 at 05:02PM
Last Edit: 01-13-2024 at 05:04PM
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IBM Personal Typewriter (aka the "Personal Selectric"). I purchased this typewriter in January 2023 from a private seller in the Washington DC area who had had it serviced by A to Z Typewriter Company in the summer of 2022. The machine works quite well, although I use it quite sparingly because of the scarcity of the "bicycle wheel" ribbon cartridge. For now, the machine is more collectors item than workhorse, although I hope that will change someday.
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Hunter: Mark McGrath (mtmcgrath)
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I'm a typewriter collector and general analog enthusiast. My first typewriter was an IBM Wheelwriter Series II that was given to me by my father when I was 12 years old. In 2005, I purchased my first manual typewriter, a 1974 Olympia SM-8, which I purchased from mytypewriter.com . I still use it daily. It has required only one service in the 18 years that I have owned it, which was performed by Philly Typerwriter in Philadelphia in 2021. Since 2020, I have expanded my collection to a dozen typerwriters of different varieties and manufacturers and have been insprired by a number of typewriter-related content creators on Youtube. The main outlet of my creative endeavors has been a diary that I have kept since my 20th birthday in 2004. I wrote my diary longhand through July 2021. Since August of that year, I have written my diary on my typwriters, increasing my daily word count to 500-1,000 words per day. I think the analog movement is one of the most important social and cultural forces in the world today and I enjoy being a small part of it.
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