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Hello! I'm a Johns Hopkins trained biomedical and electrical engineer with a variety of interests in the entertainment industry, information theory, evolution, big history, genetics, signal processing, transgenetics, translational medicine, and theoretical mathematics. I'm a strong advocate of the IndieWeb movement.

I have a love for analog office equipment including library card catalogs and typewriters. As of March 2025, I've got a segment of 45 typewriters, mostly portable and manual models along with several Royal standards, a Remington Standard, and one SMC typebar electric. I have been learning how to completely overhaul all of the machines in my collection, all of which work well aside from one or two machines which need some parts. I have a burgeoning collection of typewriter tools for continually repairing, maintaining, and upgrading my machines.

2024 was broadly a year of collecting portables and 2025 seems to be shaping up to be the year of the standards. I'm slowly morphing my TWdB collection photos so that the "hero" photos of the machine facing to the right (with the left side of the typewriter facing front generally with the carriage return in the front) are those that have been generally cleaned /restored while those facing to the left (with the right side of the typewriter facing front with carriage return in the rear) are those that still need cleaning, oiling, adjustment or a major repair. Those facing forward generally need work as well. Certainly some don't fit this pattern, but I hope to fix them all shortly as I get the requisite photos.

I've got more than half a dozen card catalogs including a Gaylord Bros. and a Steelcase along with several Remington Rand and some Shaw-Walkers. I've lost count of my index card collection once I passed 10,000.

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1953
Smith Corona
Super

Serial #5T 100387

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1971
Olympia
SG3

Serial #7-2663226

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1950
Royal
KMG

Serial #KMG-4294086

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1945
Royal
KMM

Serial #KMM-3072465

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1957
Royal
FP

Serial #FPP-6164099

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1955
Royal
HH

Serial #5765903

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1961
Royal
FP

Serial #FPS-16-7133632

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1952
Royal
Quiet De Luxe

Serial #AG-2363172

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1940
Corona
Zephyr

Serial #1Z 60682

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1951
Remington
Super-Riter

Serial #J2013204

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