Pencast: The Pennant

UPDATE: The free magazine has been taken.

Typewriter tech in trouble

Here's a typewriter tech whose shop seems doomed:

http://www.amherstbulletin.com/story/id/197160/

I'm sending him a letter offering to list him on my site as a home business if he has to leave his shop. If anyone around Amherst, Massachusetts has typewriters or computers that need fixing, or just wants to visit his shop during its probable last month of existence, I hope you'll stop by. I bet he would also appreciate a little moral support in the form of letters from members of the typosphere.

Bob Green

Amherst Typewriter & Computer

41 N. Pleasant Street

Amherst, MA 01002

413-253-7122

Followup stories are here and here.

I adopt a Scandinavian

The rear of the carriage swings back, as on some Smith-Coronas, to reveal the margin settings and paper support:

The line space dial:

Intended as a foot, serving as a knob:

"M" is for Margin:

The ƒ (guilder/florin) key; touch regulator; silicone (?) typebar rest;
unique ribbon spool with 9/16" ribbon:

A plaque on the back indicates the store that sold the machine.

"Kantoorinstallaties" means "office installations" (machines?) in Dutch.

One big foot: