198X Hermes 3000 #7913467
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Jerry Himes (JJH)
Created: 11-18-2024 at 09:17AM
Last Edit: 11-18-2024 at 09:17AM
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Description:
A very late wide-carriage Hermes 3000 featuring the modern Finnish keyboard layout and the 11 CPI Epoca typeface. The machine had some more or less usual H3K issues, like the carriage dragging on the bodywork, but after fixing all the critical problems, it types and prints very nicely for such a late machine. The type action isn't nearly as nice as on my first gen Media 3, but it's still nice and I will probably do some work with this machine.
Hard to date precisely, but apparently these were still being made in the early 1980s, and the serial number is much higher than highest one mentioned for 1979 (7500000), so I'll go for 198X.
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Hunter: Jerry Himes (JJH)
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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 have noticed that adding typewriters to the process has been beneficial to the quality of the text, plus it's just more fun this way.
I have started selling and giving away some of my machines now that I have figured out which ones I want to keep. Some people have asked me for working typewriters, so I have been on the lookout for machines purely for that purpose as well. As fun and instructive as it has been, soon it is time to finish this collecting and tinkering and move back to my original intention: writing. I hope.
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