The Selectric thread got me to thinking it's time for a new or updated typewriter thread. Post away if you have one or some. I'll start with some of mine. I have roughly 40 of them with the majority being from the 50's and 60's. The vast majority of them I've paid very little $$$ for. Finding them at thrift stores mainly for anywhere from $10 to $30 Cdn. So in these pics there are two of my favorite machines. The Adler S3 and Olympia SM8, both German built high quality typewriters. Although portable they could be used in an office environment if needed. The Adler has probably the smoothest most buttery carriage return of any of my machines and types beautifully. It's only downfall for me is that it has the carriage lift style for capitals rather than the basket shift mechanism. The Olympia, like all Olympias are precision made typers as well, much like the Adler, but it has basket shift which makes typing capitals a little easier on rheumatic pinky's like mine. The other two machines are so so's.. THe little black and white Olympia is a rather cheapened ultra-portable machine but fine for what it does and the brown Achiever from Sears iirc is a rebadged Olivetti Lettera. A decent machine but Olivetti pumped these out from factories all over the world and as the years went by the quality slowly deteriorated but they were still a decent machine for home-use.
