My SG3 is just enormous. 171 columns is what I can recall now, but I haven´t checked the travelling distance (probably measured in kilometres) between both ends of the platen. It´s one of my earliest  typewriters, and maybe it still holds the longest carriage length record at home. I should check my other giants (Imperial 58 and Groma S)... And the ridiculously big wedges too.

And I agree. Large carriages are a nightmare to store. Not practical (not even a little bit, at least for me) and one of them can easily predate the space of two portables. But I still love haveing some of these behemots around

I´d love having some really cool, no longer used symbols such as eth or thorn ([b]ð, þ), [/b]and it´d be complete madness (of the good kind, of course) having a typewriter able to perform phonologic transcription with a good bunch of Greek characters, ash, eng... For pure phonetic transcription you´d need to customize something like a Smith Premier 3, so many symbols needed!

Uwe wrote:

Javi wrote:

Here it is! The Remington Vertical Adder 21!

Very neat. Looks like it was rebuilt at some point - the plastic keys certainly aren't original, nor the paint I don't think. Does it work?
 

I agree, this has to be a rebuilt typewriter. At first I thought it was some strange Remington I didn´t know about, but it is a repainted Remington 12 with new keytops.

Sadly, it doesn´t work. The typewriter part is fine (I only need to replace the broken drawband), but there are some missing parts. There´s no first decimal tabulator key, and next to it there should be another weird key located on the outer frame. With these missing parts I seriously doubt it can calculate again. The calculator itself seems to be fine because each time you press a number all the gears turn, but I don´t have a clue if they work right or not. Apart from that, the counter at the top seems to be jammed. I´ll try to learn how this machine is supposed to work, because as for now I´m totally lost with it.
 

I.den wrote:

It was a Remington Standard 10 that wasn't working, but was the thing that pushed me over the edge. I started looking and reading, and eventually decided that an Olivetti Lettera 32 was the one for me. 
Having bought that, I was finally able to check out what typing on an actual typewriter was like (I might have to add I'm only 28 years old, so I didn't grow up with manual typewriters, although I do remember typing on my father's Brother Electric typewriter). I found the experience to be exhilirating. 
I bought the book by dr. Richard Polt about the typewriter revolution, and started wondering whether perhaps it wouldn't be nice to have an Olympia, next to my Olivetti. 
Once I had the Olympia, I thought it might be fun to have a Smith Corona.
Etc. etc..

Oh my, oh my... I know that story well. I had another typewriter, but what definitely gave me typewriter fever was a Lettera 32 when I was 28 as well! Now I´m 32, so I guess it´s not that different.

TypewriterKing wrote:

Careful, it's from those little small armies that larger armies grow. I think I have a little over an entire company's worth, or a platoon. Maybe a squadron. What does 75 to 100 constitute?
 

Indeed it´s grown larger. So large that today it´s hit the 140 mark. More than enough to invade my house