The title of this blog was inspired by my typewriters. An early motivation for my collecting--to rescue typewriters that were in danger of being discarded and to restore each of them to good working condition--has been an objective for all of my machines: to make them type again, hence "Re-Typing."

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

New Acquisition

I mistyped when I said I paid 12 times the cost of the typewriter.  In reality it was more like 7 times.  My math failed me!  Also, Olympia looks really strange hyphenated after the "Ol"  (it looks like zero--one) and "ab-out" is about as strange!  I think my English failed as well.  

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3 comments:

  1. Richard PAugust 16, 2011 at 5:50 PM

    What a steal!! I'm glad it's OK despite the poor packing.

    That pitch between elite and pica seems to be popular in European typewriters.

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  2. CameronAugust 17, 2011 at 9:22 AM

    This machine looks like it means business! Very elegantly utilitarian. I imagine it would indeed be very satisfying to type on.

    I like the pitch very much. You can get more words on a page!

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  3. Vermont Vintage TypewriterJune 1, 2015 at 8:22 AM

    What a nice Olympia. I understand that 11 point font is standard for these machines. I just found a "new" 1967 SM8 this weekend http://vermontvintagetypewriter.blogspot.com/2015/05/tell-them-what-youre-looking-for.html

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