1 - colrehogan
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Typosphere
I have seen this term throughout the forum on occasion and am wondering what the typosphere is and / or where it is?
Smith Premier typewriters are cool!
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- TypewriterGuy
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Re: Typosphere
Nice desk.
Back from a long break.
Starting fresh with my favorite typer. A Royal Futura!
- KatLondon
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Cute diner cup!
I love the typosphere. I could not have got where I am without it - in fact, I was reading the typewriter blogs before I even had a typewriter. As a blogger myself I really admire the amount of time and care so many people have put into their sites (and, in many cases, the great writing), and the expertise and enthusiasm they share. It has certainly helped me to understand the typewriters I have, and it's helped me to make decisions. In the very beginning it was the typosphere that let me know what was possible, and that I COULD get a typewriter (or all the typewriters) and learn how to clean them and fix them.
It's funny in that paradoxical way, that the internet has so largely made the typewriter insurgency possible. It certainly has for me - I'm good with my hands and like making things, but I'd never fixed anything mechanical, with tools and oils and solvents, before.
- BrianE
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Re: Typosphere
My hat's off to all of you who can repair or restore a typewriter! Discovered a recently aquired portable was a devil to clean.
I work on vintage electronics & reel to reel tape decks, and like to think I can fix most anything.
Clocks and now typewriters are where I throw in the towel. Too many complex parts, and I don't have the specialized tools.
Thanks for compliments about desk BTW, but don't encourage me... A "Typo-O-Sphere" topic is right up my alley as place for show & tell. Here's my "weather corner" for portable.
All of my antiques work BTW. I'm a volunteer "weather watcher" so while phone & instruments on the wall work, the station for NWS is digital & outside of course.
Happy typing & collecting everyone & enjoy your week!
Brian
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- Uwe
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Re: Typosphere
I'd love to see a close-up of that marine clock. Looks like it might be a U.S. Navy Seth-Thomas? I love marine clocks, but only have the one (a Wempe) as I've bought too many aircraft and vintage alarm clocks to allow myself to spend any more on that hobby.
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
- BrianE
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Thanks. You have a good eye. Here's requested photo. Antiques no fun unless you can show them off & talk about them. ; )
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- BrianE
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Don't know how many of you are interested in history, but nice little article & photo gallery at Smithsonian.
Written in 1998, I like the writer's closing para.
"...many people are quite attached to their typewriters, some even stubbornly holding on to manual machines with the same dedication seen in fountain pen users in this day of the felt tip pen!"
A "Flair" felt tip pen? I remeber them from the 70's, but 1998? ; )
- ztyper
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Well it's going on 20 years, and the typewriter is still here! 
A high schooler with a lot of typewriters. That's pretty much about it.
