tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post7250682903878561195..comments2024-03-18T16:27:03.502+11:00Comments on oz.Typewriter: Salute to the Corona 3 Portable Typewriter on its 100th Anniversary: Part IIIRobert Messengerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04366507489948676594noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post-49418603602932207792013-01-22T08:13:53.243+11:002013-01-22T08:13:53.243+11:00Thank you Jasper, Florian, Georg, Cameron and Davi...Thank you Jasper, Florian, Georg, Cameron and David.<br />Jasper, they don't still make them because when they did make them, they made them too well.<br />This is a lovely story, David, thank you for sharing. I suspect many have stumbled across Corona 3s still fully operational and have thoroughly enjoyed using them over the years. A long time ago I posted on a flurry of letters in a British motoring magazine from about 1961, all telling similar stories. Robert Messengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04366507489948676594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post-61833369683180283662013-01-22T06:44:33.176+11:002013-01-22T06:44:33.176+11:00I was astonished to see a Corona 3 Portable typewr...I was astonished to see a Corona 3 Portable typewriter for sale in a Charity shop on the East coast of Britain about 5 years ago for the princely sum of £2.50. In it's case and entirely undamaged, I could not have got my wallet out any quicker. As a student in the 1960s I learned to use a typewriter and have always had one. My Corona even had a ribbon in it and, whilst being driven home to my old cottage in the Derbyshire Peak District, searched for a piece of paper in the car to try it out. I like antiques, but prefer technology items such as typewiters, telephones, morse keys, cameras, old radios etc. The Corona sits on a little table in the French windows of my sitting room next to the candlestick telephone of 1924 vintage (no dial)and I still use it on a weekly basis for correspondence etc. Best fifty-shillings (in pre-decimal currency) I ever spent!David Murraynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post-37888464303275249522013-01-01T07:06:52.103+11:002013-01-01T07:06:52.103+11:00This Corona story is getting better and better!
O...This Corona story is getting better and better!<br /><br />On to Parts IV & V...<br /><br />Robert, thank you again for documenting this very important part of typewriter history!Cameronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11633967390492270136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post-66352199904150749222012-12-31T06:00:43.950+11:002012-12-31T06:00:43.950+11:00You make my day - again.You make my day - again.shordzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04824301365798484902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post-45259526496596596772012-12-30T22:39:42.646+11:002012-12-30T22:39:42.646+11:00Excellent - but that mountain doesn't impress ...Excellent - <a href="http://maschinengeschrieben.blogspot.ch/search/label/typing%20above%20the%20sea%20level" rel="nofollow">but that mountain doesn't impress me</a>.maschinengeschriebenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01955578932937697125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post-63288361964298000412012-12-30T14:37:24.068+11:002012-12-30T14:37:24.068+11:00I was actually given a Corona Three about three ye...I was actually given a Corona Three about three years ago by a man at my church. It had been owned by his aunt and who knows before her. I took it to a shop for refurbishing and the only thing that needed to be done was a re-covering of the platen.<br />I rarely use it, but it's a great and hardy little machine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post-82552597010518622672012-12-30T13:30:05.178+11:002012-12-30T13:30:05.178+11:00Your brilliant posts, Robert, leave me with one qu...Your brilliant posts, Robert, leave me with one question: Why don't we still make them today?Jasper Lindellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08615796112573422913noreply@blogger.com