A traditional ring-road morning. Don’t let the google photo fool you. This place is huge. A couple of the machines sitting lonely in the glass cabinets. An AMC in a box. Just beautiful. Bing Model No2: A gift that John gave me last year. …
To the moon and back… to Melbourne. Part 1 – The lonely lost highway Part 2 – The Dubbo wildlife. Hello? Is there anybody out there? Parkes Observatory. Hello…. I was here! Tee hee…. Is anyone cooking up a crock pot? Soggy ol’…
Somewhere in New South Wales: the lonely lost highway – The Newell. They make pubs big in Queensland. But why the palm trees 300km from the beach? *watching in the rear-view mirror* Link to the ‘Worlds largest virtual solar system’.
Going so soon? See ya Holden… The model car our umbrella was being designed for. Got keys? So I should buy this Cruze instead of (insert X car) just because it is a Holden – the ‘legendary Australian brand Holden’? No thanks.. I prefer my Nissan Exxy. This little guy won’t go far, right? Bah-ha-ha..…
In the past few days both Nick and Ton have picked up Olivetti Valentine machines of their own. Here’s Nick’s blog on his purchase, which had followed Ton’s which can be found here. *EDIT* Rob Messenger just pointed out that he also picked up a Valentine last week. They’re multiplying! You can read about Robert’s…
Time to crack out the Remington 5 for a bit. And as it is such a nice day, the front deck will be perfect.
From my Olivetti Lettera DL. A Typewriter that has survived longer than all of Google’s services, and saw their competitors become giants and fall.
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One of my Hermes 3000s maybe? *whispers, not wispers in the text below.
Davis Typewriter works: 2013 Carina. The Carina 2 is a very solid typewriter despite the plastic case, but is very light despite its size. Even when it is being kept in its interesting case.
The Filthy Platen 