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Re: Magic Ribbon
beak wrote:
Unless I'm much mistaken, the printing was added post - and it looks like a Photoshop font to me.
You're probably right about that. I wouldn't know about whether it's a Photoshop typeface though.
Anyone else have thoughts about the typewriter? Uwe says prewar Olympia, and I am inclined to agree at this point, but I am not familiar with those.
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th vibrator is broken on the left side. or is that just the robbon holder? Sorry, it's late.
The actual vibrator looks fine to me, but maybe you're referring to the two posts to the left of it that are a part of the ribbon mechanism?
Uwe says prewar Olympia...
Technically it could be a war-time Olympia model as well as those from the '30s were still being produced then.
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Nice job, Beak! 
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th vibrator is broken on the left side. or is that just the robbon holder? Sorry, it's late.
The actual vibrator looks fine to me, but maybe you're referring to the two posts to the left of it that are a part of the ribbon mechanism?
Yes Uwe, that was what I was referring to.
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This conversation, right here, is why I come to this board.
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th vibrator is broken on the left side. or is that just the robbon holder? Sorry, it's late.
Actually, it's not broken. There are many typewriters that only have a cardholder (which is what that thing is on the right side of the vibrator, which to me looks like the whole thing's there) on one side.
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Unless I'm much mistaken, the printing was added post - and it looks like a Photoshop font to me.
It wouldn't surprise me. For one thing, you'd have to find a person who is still handy with a manual typewriter (how many still out there?). And then, loading a ribbon, typing the message, then unloading the ribbon--neatly--without smudging the paper, or taking the paper out, unloading the ribbon, cleaning the whole affair up, then putting the paper back. A lot of work has to go into this poster, and I can definitely see why they would be using a Photoshop font, or type face.
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This conversation, right here, is why I come to this board.
Oh, we really get down to the nuts and bolts of it all. And then there are crackpots like me who can really take this to a whole new level!!
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Re: Magic Ribbon
th vibrator is broken on the left side. or is that just the robbon holder? Sorry, it's late.
Actually, it's not broken. There are many typewriters that only have a cardholder (which is what that thing is on the right side of the vibrator, which to me looks like the whole thing's there) on one side.
This was resolved in post #14.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
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Re: Magic Ribbon
th vibrator is broken on the left side. or is that just the robbon holder? Sorry, it's late.
Actually, it's not broken. There are many typewriters that only have a cardholder (which is what that thing is on the right side of the vibrator, which to me looks like the whole thing's there) on one side.
This was resolved in post #14.
Sorry, but as these threads get long in the tooth, it's hard to observe who said what when. Pardon my error.
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