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Sunday, 1 January 2023
RIP Barbara Walters (1929-2022)
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Barbara Jill Walters (September 25, 1929 – December 30, 2022) was an American broadcast journalist known for her interviewing ability. Walte...
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Wednesday, 19 October 2022
The Joys of Fixing Typewriters
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The "automatic return" Halda Barking mad?: What was really wrong with it - a piece of bark in the escapement mechanism.
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Wednesday, 12 October 2022
Vale Angela Lansbury (1925-2022)
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It's a very long time since typewriters featured so heavily on our television screens. They've done so today as networks have paid t...
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Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Mitterhofer Typewriter Claim Upsets US Historian
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The 1864 Mitterhofer machine was on show in the exhibition "Mountains, People and the Economy of the Ostmark" in 1939. Today the 2...
Sunday, 18 September 2022
The Queen is Dead, Long Live the King’s Typewriter
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My dear friend Gary McGill, originally from Dillmanstown outside Kumara, was, I believe, the only male born in New Zealand on the same day t...
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WD-40 and Typewriters: Never the Twain Should Meet
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Whenever I fix a typewriter, I offer the customer free after-service care. Yesterday, for the first time, that offer was taken up. Three yea...
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Saturday, 13 August 2022
When Jeff Missed Out To The Typewriter Guy
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While I was cleaning up this Remington Noiseless portable for today’s typewriter presentation, I came across what I at first took to be a bi...
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Monday, 11 July 2022
The Ongoing Popularity of Portable Typewriters
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Friday, 8 July 2022
RIP James Caan (1940-2022)
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Actor James Caan, who died in Los Angeles on Wednesday, aged 82, will be best remembered by typewriter lovers for his manhandling of a Royal...
Saturday, 2 July 2022
Typewriter Dinkuses
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Did you know dinkuses, the plural of dinkus, is an anagram of unkissed? Yet there once was many a time when, rushing against deadline to mak...
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