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- Kalani
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Different line spacing options on the same Smith Corona Electra 120's?
I have 2 Smith Corona Electra 120's.
Line spacing on one is 1,2,3
Line spacing on the other is 1, 1-1/2, 2
Why was the 1-1/2 line spacing made in one and not another? Different year? Markets (euro vs usa)?
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- Uwe
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Re: Different line spacing options on the same Smith Corona Electra 120's?
Based on my memory, the change to the line spacing option was not unique to the Electra.
Smith-Corona changed the 1-2-3 spacing to 1-1.5-2 across its entire portable range, my guess would be in the early '60s. However, I couldn't tell you whether they were all changed the same model year, or if there were some models that weren't actually changed, without doing a little digging.
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- OregonJim
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Re: Different line spacing options on the same Smith Corona Electra 120's?
I've got 8 Smith-Corona 6-series portables, both manual and electric, ranging in age from 1965 to 1975. The line spacing change doesn't seem to be tied to a particular date, as I have variations of each (1-2-3 and 1-1 1/2-2) in both the earliest and latest models. Could it have been a special-order option, like the typefaces? I don't recall seeing any advertisements that offered a choice, so maybe not.
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Re: Different line spacing options on the same Smith Corona Electra 120's?
Are you saying that you have models from the '70s with the 1-2-3 spacing? If that's the case, my collection has been deceiving me because all of my early '60s (and '50s) have the 1-2-3, and the later models are all 1-1.5-2.
I've never seen/noticed line spacing being offered as an option either.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
- Kalani
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Re: Different line spacing options on the same Smith Corona Electra 120's?
Uwe wrote:
Are you saying that you have models from the '70s with the 1-2-3 spacing? If that's the case, my collection has been deceiving me because all of my early '60s (and '50s) have the 1-2-3, and the later models are all 1-1.5-2.
I've never seen/noticed line spacing being offered as an option either.
The 1-1/2 line spacing is on my 1968 Smith Corona Electra 120.
I wonder if all of th SC Electra and also the Coronet and Galaxie series after a certain year came with the 1-1/2 line spacing. Or maybe it varied by model?
Or maybe those sold in the European market offered 1-1/2 line spacing.
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Thread Starter- MartinD
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Re: Different line spacing options on the same Smith Corona Electra 120's?
I have a 1968 Classic 12 with elite font that has the 1-1.5-2 line spacing and two Galaxie 12's, both pica font with 1-2-3 spacing from 1975 and '76. I have 5 SCM electrics from late 60's and early 70's with a mixture of the two fonts, Coronets , Sears Medalist, Electra's, that have 1-1.5-2-2.5-3 ability.
- OregonJim
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Re: Different line spacing options on the same Smith Corona Electra 120's?
Are you saying that you have models from the '70s with the 1-2-3 spacing? If that's the case, my collection has been deceiving me because all of my early '60s (and '50s) have the 1-2-3, and the later models are all 1-1.5-2.
I've never seen/noticed line spacing being offered as an option either.
I just opened all the cases and double-checked.
Machines with 1-2-3 spacing:
1968 Electra 220
1968 Coronet Electric
1969 Galaxie XII
1969 Galaxie Deluxe
Machines with 1-1 1/2-2 spacing:
1965 Electra 120
1967 Classic 10
1973 Classic 12
1975 Classic 12
- robmck
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Re: Different line spacing options on the same Smith Corona Electra 120's?
Perhaps something that was offered as an option in earlier years and became standard later (possibly because of a high rate of people choosing that option)?
- OregonJim
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Re: Different line spacing options on the same Smith Corona Electra 120's?
It could also be that our available reference data for Smith-Corona is not entirely accurate. I had to extrapolate the manufacture date of my Galaxie Deluxe, for example, based on available (earlier) data and adjusting by the approx. number of machines produced each year.
- Kalani
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Re: Different line spacing options on the same Smith Corona Electra 120's?
It seems the "regular" spacing, noted as "1", "2", "3" are more common.
Is this true?
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