The pen: mightier than the sword. The typewriter: more powerful than the pen. Q.E.D.(Image links to a larger version which you may use it at will).
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RETROTECHNOLOGIST?
I KNEW THE LOSS WAS SERIOUS WHEN I SAW THE NEWSPAPER JUNK THEIR OLD PRINTING PRESSES. Seeing it myself made it real. Ripped the heart right out of that building and that paper.
It's not why newspapers are dying but it is one reason why they die largely unmourned.
I'm pushing back.
Typewriters, Dial Telephones, Hand Tools, Old Amateur Radio Gear, Telegraph Keys, Analog Volt Ohmmeters, Vacuumatic Coffeemakers, Slide Rules, Fountain Pens, etc.: I have 'em. I use 'em.
It's not political.
There are other places for that. People who love old technology can be found all across the spectrum. Let's concentrate on what we have in common.
A major goal of this blog is to make information findable.
I try to use post titles that include the topic or device covered and to include links to further information. If you have anything to add, please comment on the post or e-mail me.
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It's not why newspapers are dying but it is one reason why they die largely unmourned.
I'm pushing back.
Typewriters, Dial Telephones, Hand Tools, Old Amateur Radio Gear, Telegraph Keys, Analog Volt Ohmmeters, Vacuumatic Coffeemakers, Slide Rules, Fountain Pens, etc.: I have 'em. I use 'em.
It's not political.
There are other places for that. People who love old technology can be found all across the spectrum. Let's concentrate on what we have in common.
A major goal of this blog is to make information findable.
I try to use post titles that include the topic or device covered and to include links to further information. If you have anything to add, please comment on the post or e-mail me.
(e-mail update pending)
PRACTICIONERS OF THE ART:
- ALL THINGS WIRELESS AND LETTERPRESS
- INDIANA HAMFEST CALENDAR, 2015
- DURENBERGER.COM (RADIO BRODCASTING)
- OLDENGINE.ORG
- THE RADIOTELEGRAPHER
- THE RAYMOND SCOTT ARCHIVES BLOG
- VINTAGE TECH OBSESSIONS (Blog)
- AM AMATEUR RADIO FORUM
- BILL'S ANTIQUE RADIOS
- Niel, W0VLZ
- ELECTRONIX AND MORE
- CQ de W0VLZ
- YE OLD DRILLE
- COLLAPSING WORLD
- THE INDIANA HISTORICAL RADIO SOCIETY
- WESTERN HISTORIC RADIO MUSEUM (KEYS)
- Radiotelegraphy.net
- THE TELEGRAPHER
- THE TYPEWRITER PAGES OF WILL DAVIS
- THE STEAMPUNK WORKSHOP
- ROUGH AND TUMBLE ENGINEERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
- AA9PW FCC EXAM PRACTICE
- MARITIME RADIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
- THE CLASSIC TYPEWRITER PAGE
- W. R. SMITH: TELEGRAPH KEYS, CLOCKMAKING AND MODELMAKING
- W1TP TELEGRAPH & SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENT MUSEUMS
- HISTORY OF TELEVISION
About Me
- Roberta X
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
Followers
SOURCES
- Hewlett-Packard Archive
- Edcor Transformers: power, audio, chokes
- Angela Instruments (tube parts)
- Pilot Light Data
- VIZ key: bugs, cooties and keyers
- PM Research: Steam Engines, Stirling Engines
- Campbell Tools (Steam Engine Kits, too)
- Your Old Time Bookstore (titles from Lindsay's Technical Books)
- Extendadot: speed reducers for bug keys
- Vibroplex
- Morse Express
- Antique Electronics Supply
- Modern Radio Labs
- PhoneCo
- Old Phone Works
I like it!
ReplyDeleteInspired by Woody Guthrie, my Triumph sports the label, "This Machine Kills Fascists".
ReplyDelete"A beater typewriter?" Shirley Eugeste, my good lady!
ReplyDeleteJust like a "beater" car, Sam -- worn but working, nothing rare or wonderful, just something you don't feel bad about using at the beach or in the deepest, darkest depths of Unexplored Starbuck's. Except you couldn't take a beater *car* to the latter, I guess. Actually, you could, but it would make a mess and they wouldn't serve you any coffee. Unless it was a realllly small car and even then it's iffy.
ReplyDeleteAt work, my peers and I have for years threatened to lock up the Engineering toolroom and leave a set of "beaters" hanging on the locked door for the benefit of News photogs and Random J. Coworkers who "borrow" the good tools.
PS: as Leonard Wibberley wrote of the pen and the sword, the pen is mightier but the sword is louder and faster at any given point in time. He's right, and it could be argued that one advantage a typewriter has over a pen is if writing doesn't get the job done, the machine can serve as shield, club or projectile if absolutely necessary; but it's best avoided. Given the wide range of books urging people to do bad things, I view this sticker as being more of a promise than a threat.
ReplyDeleteOlivander, your comment prompted me to go look up the details of T. E. Lawrence's untimely death (though I wouldn't define him as a fascist). Wasn't a Triumph that got him; it was Brough Superior SS11. *Then* I remembered Triumph made typewriters, too. >Blush<
ReplyDeleteMy sticker's a riff on Woody Guthrie's.