Thursday, August 2, 2012

A Typing Space: Part Two
Fold-up furniture is an easy porch solution.  It cannot get stolen or bird-crapped on and it stows away beside your typewriter shelves.

Sorry the printing is light, not the best machine.  Still a loved machine though.

My porch sitting view.

Typing topless so I can fiddle with the ribbon as it stops up.  Also a good view of the QWERTZ keyboard for those who haven't seen one.  See that the Z and Y are switched.  A keen eye might note I used a semi-colon in my typecast but the machine doesn't have one.  I simply printed a colon, backspaced, and printed a comma on top.

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  1. I must say I am a bit envious of your hillside view. While my flat is decent and my neighborhood is as well, it is tiny and devoid of nature. I have tired of urban life and truly miss and yearn for the country, or at least a front yard. My poor dog has grown nearly hoarse, howling at sirens as they pass on the street below.

    I like the typewriter! I'm in the market for a Cyrillic model myself to bridge the gap between my rapidly-growing typewriter collection and my Russian militaria collection. I would like to learn Russian anyway, so it's a double enabling excuse. Are you fluent in German? On a cursory read of your typecast, my guess is yes.

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    1. Believe it or not my home is actually within town limits of a city with a population of around 20,000... it's just on the edge so I get the best of both worlds.

      I have one Cyrillic typewriter but I don't use it so often because my Russian is pretty poor. I took 3 semesters of it but I was focusing on engineering at the time and didn't put much effort into it. Ich spreche Deutsch. I will never be mistaken for a native speaker by any means but anything I need to say I can say and if the other person speaks clearly and slowly I can get along in conversation. You'll see my Cyrillic typewriter sometime, but I won't be able to do much of a typecast on it!

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  2. That is a nice view. I was glad to get a QWERTZ for the same reason. Then suddenly I had three. The Swiss don't use ß, so the Swissa is a bit different. It also accommodates French.
    Was that your letter in "Typewriters Around the World" the other day?

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    1. Didn't know that about the Swiss. I have two QWERTZ and one Cyrillic typewriter in my collection. I wanted this one though because bad as it is I think it is in better shape than my Olympia which I will introduce to this blog eventually. By accommodates French do you mean has the accents? Because both of my QWERTZ machines do that. You can do the little c thing with c, backspace, comma. And make a chapeau or whatever they call it by hitting both accents.

      And good job catching me, that is indeed my letter which I mailed out several months ago. I also sent him pictures of the Sprite and it's a shame he didn't post those. It was a pretty slick looking machine. My friend owns it now.

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  3. Looks like a fine place to do some typing.

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  4. Very nice set up you have there. The first apartment I rented was chosen for the balcony. A couple of chairs and a grill later, and my brother and I spent many a good night on that balcony.
    I will be getting my first QWERTZ typewriter soon, and I am anxious to try my hand at it. You did a very nice job keeping it in line.
    Also, that little table looks like a little ironing board.

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    1. It sort of does look like an ironing board. It is an acceptable table, but I would prefer one that was just slightly more sturdy. At least it was cheap and easily stowable.

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  5. Hi Mark

    Very nice place to type.

    I have a typewriter just like it - exept mine is the Gabriele 25. And it's the Danish keyboard with æ, ø and å. It prints so nice. I wrote my Aunt a letter the other day, and photocopied it to have a copy of it for my self. Looking at the photocopy you would really have to look hard to know that it wasn't done on a computer. So far its my favourite machine. But then again - I only have three typewriters as for now.

    Just bought an Erika though - slowly getting into that one.

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    1. I might be getting my first Erika soon. It types in Fraktur! The European typewriters excite me, you don't see a lot besides Olympias and Olivettis here.

      I like your last name by the way, mine is Petersen. People often spell it son and not sen, but it is so much cooler with an E.

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