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Unless it's changed recently, this exact service is also quite common in India and the Philippines, and I would suspect throughout SE Asia. Five years ago one such street typist in India made [url=
On another key, your article would make a great ad for Olympia:
'What typewriter do professional typists in Myanmar prefer? Why the Olympia SG3, of course! Durable, reliable, and easy to use, this air-cooled wonder can churn out legal documents all-day-long.'
Not that I could ever make a living from it, but a few times a year I get paid to create a typewritten document (most often it's bad poetry).
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Olympia should have hired you as copywriter when they still could.
Concerning the SG 3*, I can't see the keyboards very clear, but I assume they are Burmese?
So these people use old technology with a very specific keyboard.
For sure not your every day standard...
* Is it SG3 or SG 3? Pricelists, leaflets and manuals from Olympia use a space between the class and the number; SG 1, SM 9 etc. I think it's logical to write it the way Olympia did, but apparently a lot of people omit the space. I find it confusing, is there a reason for this?
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Laurenz van Gaalen wrote:
Is it SG3 or SG 3? Pricelists, leaflets and manuals from Olympia use a space between the class and the number; SG 1, SM 9 etc. I think it's logical to write it the way Olympia did, but apparently a lot of people omit the space. I find it confusing, is there a reason for this?
I most often type SG3 because it's the easiest.
From all the Olympia materials I've seen, I can recall the company using one of three designators. End consumer-related items such as manuals would identify the machine (and all other models) with a space: SG 3. In other Olympia documents such as parts catalogues there's normally a hyphen in there: SG-3. And, in brochures and technical documents there wouldn't be a space or hyphen at all: SG3.
It would appear that not even Olympia could decide on a standard way to write its model names and all of the above forms are acceptable. Why the variants? It could be as simple as what a layout artist, copy writer and technician believed was most correct.
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Thanks Uwe for your clear and interesting answer. I was not aware of the other two designators. I simply assumed that Olympia used the same designators in all publications.
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For example:
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Peculiar. Was this typical for Olympia or was it common practice back in the days?