Eagle wrote:

Let's try to get an answer from Google via it's artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini.

I decided to do the same thing and my result was:

Gemini (and almost certainly Google) thinks the Typewriter Talk forum no longer exists because it believes Boardhost shut down sometime in 2024 (I believe I first noticed this issue early last year).  I argued with Gemini repeatedly that this was incorrect, insisting I was on the site at that moment, was logged in, and just commented, but it still didn't believe me. Gemini did not relent until I told it that the Typewriter Talk forum is the number one result in Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Qwant, at which point I think it decided to search via those engines and finally apologized to me for being wrong.  After telling me I was right, it said it was most likely a technical issue with the forum's configuration (this might mean Boardhost) that is preventing Google from indexing it properly.

For over a year now, this site has been completely invisible to Google. Not a lower ranking, but the entire content of this forum is completely gone.  This is a huge problem because about ~90% of search traffic goes through Google. In addition to previously being the top search result in Google for 'Typewriter Forum', Typewriter Talk was often the top result for typewriter questions. Currently, the only people who will be able to find this forum, and its dozen years of typewriter discussions, would have to pretty much arrive via a bookmark, link, full address in their browser, or be among of the ~10% that doesn't use Google for search.

Of the fixes the Gemini recommended, the first one seemed to be the only applicable one considering this is not an issue with other search engines. It reads as follows, and I am not sure if it is referring to Type Talk, or to Boardhost when it says 'forum owner':

Actions the Typewriter Talk forum owners can take:

Does your Royal 10 a have a standard carriage, or is it wide carriage?

M. Höhne wrote:

perhaps for filing of different topics the way NCR packets were supplied with different colored papers with copies to be given to customer, salesman, accounting, and inventory.

To me, this seems the most plausible.
 

That is an Optima Elite, maybe an Elite 2, with an Olympia decal. I am not sure why it has an Olympia decal. While Optima was the company that was born from the East German part of Olympia, I think this particular model would have come after the fight over branding was settled.

As far as where the ring and cylinder adjustment points are located, I am not sure, but there is a chance that the Model O uses a similar system to the Model P, and there is a repair manual for that which can be found here.