27 Sep
2010
27 Sep
'10
10:11 p.m.
http://library.rider.edu/special_collections/typewriters/ibm1.jpg
I am currently minding one of these on its journey to a local museum,
but it is missing the enter/return key cap [*], if anyone has a spare
please I would be willing to pay postage.
The console I have was once used with the local Elliott Brothers
Elliott 503 computer.
thanks.
[*] large square key cap seen at the right hand side of the keyboard.
27 Sep
27 Sep
10:41 p.m.
On 28 Sep 2010 at 15:11, Nigel Williams wrote:
http://library.rider.edu/special_collections/typewriters/ibm1.jpg
I am currently minding one of these on its journey to a local museum,
but it is missing the enter/return key cap [*], if anyone has a spare
please I would be willing to pay postage.
The console I have was once used with the local Elliott Brothers
Elliott 503 computer.
IBM Model B? Looks exactly like the one on an IBM 1620.
--Chuck
10:45 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
IBM Model B? ?Looks exactly like the one on an IBM
1620.
Could be, checkout the description here as to the myriad of closely
related models:
http://www.mrmartinweb.com/type.htm
I can provide identifying marks from the typewriter if that would help
or needed; I am assuming the keycap is the same for most of these
models (at least judging by the pictures).
28 Sep
28 Sep
8:45 a.m.
On 27 Sep 2010 at 22:52, Fred Cisin wrote:
So,
the solution would be to scrap a 1620 to get one?
The Model B was one of the most common IBM typewriters prior to the
Selectric line. When the division GM's secretary turned in her
Model B Executive (prop-spacing with the split spacebar) for a
Selectric, I grabbed it and turned out better-looking correspondece
than she did.
There must have been millions of the Model B made (some with 1620s
attached), so it shouldn't be hard to turn up a key in some old
typewriter shop's parts crib.
--Chuck
11:37 a.m.
> So,
> the solution would be to scrap a 1620 to get one?
JUST KIDDING!!!!!!
(scrap something rare to fix something common)
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Chuck Guzis wrote:
The Model B was one of the most common IBM typewriters
prior to the
Selectric line. When the division GM's secretary turned in her
Model B Executive (prop-spacing with the split spacebar) for a
Selectric, I grabbed it and turned out better-looking correspondece
than she did.
There must have been millions of the Model B made (some with 1620s
attached), so it shouldn't be hard to turn up a key in some old
typewriter shop's parts crib.
I remember them. Although I loved the concept of the Selectric, (In 1970,
I had my own APL type ball), the model B could withstand longer periods of
high speed typing. My book publisher's wife averaged 150WPM over an 8
hour day, and afterwards had no recollection of what she had been typing.
I introduced them to Word Processing with TRS80 ("Electric Pencil", and
then "Scripsit") Sorry about that.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
10:13 a.m.
Here's a handy list of typewriter repair folks around the world:
http://staff.xu.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-repair.html
One just might have what you need.
--Chuck
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