Hi Paul
I think you'll find that the Hermes-9, although being a super machine, takes up a lot of desk space and is not very easily portable. It is for this reason that many standard or office typewriters don't get the attention they deserve from collectors and often users. If you had only one typewriter and it was a Hermes-9, you would probably use it every day. Just my thoughts
Sky
We humans go through many computers in our lives, but in their lives, typewriters go through many of us.
In that way, they’re like violins, like ancestral swords. So I use mine with honor and treat them with respect.
I try to leave them in better condition than I met them. I am not their first user, nor will I be their last.
Frederic S. Durbin. (Typewriter mania and the modern writer)
