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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.


1974
Olympia
SM8

Serial #4716614

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199X
IBM
Wheelwriter 6 Series II

Serial #11-0073563

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1965
Olympia
SF

Serial #5-1011284

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1981
IBM
Correcting Selectric III

Serial #27-6705-93-5079929

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1962
Royal
Empress

Serial #MCE-11-7376220

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1983
IBM
Personal Typewriter

Serial #6126-11-0067868

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1972
Olympia
SM9

Serial #452319

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1976
IBM
Selectric I

Serial #21-0677395

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