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1984 Swintec (Nakajima) 1146 CM Serial # 41326375 1984 Swintec (Nakajima) 1146 CM typewriter, Serial # 41326375 Christopher Bailey's 1984 Swintec (Nakajima) 1146 CM typewriter. 2023-12-24 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Christopher Bailey: 1984 Swintec (Nakajima) 1146 CM Serial # 41326375 If the Nakajima date-code information holds for this model, then this unit was made in January of 1984. It has no visible branding on the front; the only make and model information is on the sticker on the back. (There is a slight possibility that the dealerā€™s sticker obscures a nameplate underneath.)

1984 Swintec (Nakajima) 1146 CM #41326375

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 12-24-2023 at 09:05PM
Last Edit: 12-24-2023 at 09:15PM


Description:

If the Nakajima date-code information holds for this model, then this unit was made in January of 1984. It has no visible branding on the front; the only make and model information is on the sticker on the back. (There is a slight possibility that the dealerā€™s sticker obscures a nameplate underneath.)

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“KBII” is a locking key; when it is down, then pressing the shift key activates the alternate characters on the top row.
ā€œKBIIā€ is a locking key; when it is down, then pressing the shift key activates the alternate characters on the top row.


Some of the alternate characters activated by KBII and the shift key.
Some of the alternate characters activated by KBII and the shift key.

This address is a 1960s-vintage split-level house in a typical suburban-Pittsburgh housing plan.
This address is a 1960s-vintage split-level house in a typical suburban-Pittsburgh housing plan.

This sticker on the back is the only indication of make and model.
This sticker on the back is the only indication of make and model.

The uninteresting innards under the hood.
The uninteresting innards under the hood.

The serial number is on a sticker under the printhead.
The serial number is on a sticker under the printhead.



Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)

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Iā€™m a writer who often writes with a typewriter to get away from the computer for a while. I think I became a typewriter collector when I bought my typewriters some industrial-grade wheeled steel shelving from a restaurant supply house. Before that I was just an accumulator, but now Iā€™ve spent more on shelves than on all the typewriters put together. (They were all cheap.)

I have steel pens, too, which I also write with regularly. Both collections started at the same moment in 1990, at the liquidation of the head offices of the old G. C. Murphy five-and-dime chain, where I bought a Woodstock typewriter, two gross of Esterbrook Jackson Stub pens, and three bottles of Carterā€™s green ink.



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