2000 Olympia Traveller C #0287554
Status: My Collection
Hunter: Garrison Aa (RooftopKitty)
Created: 07-22-2019 at 07:43PM
Last Edit: 09-12-2022 at 03:10PM
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Description:
Purchased without the case. Types perfectly with a remarkably light touch. Modern keyboard layout with apostrophe beside the semicolon.
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Hunter: Garrison Aa (RooftopKitty)
Garrison Aa's Typewriter Galleries [ My Collection ] [ My Sightings ]
Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 140
Long time typewriter admirer, newly minted collector. I was part of the IBM Boca Raton team that built the PC XT, the PC AT and IBM PC DOS (IBM's version of MS DOS). Little did we know that we were contributing to the shift away from these beautiful machines.
In those days (1980's) every admin bay at work had two IBM Selectric typewriters and our supply cabinets had fresh boxes of ribbons and type elements for anyone to help themselves. If I only knew then ...
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