IBM//THE TYPEWRITER REVOLUTION

This machine brings tiny flowers of courage in the middle of the night

by Richard Polt | Oct 24, 2021 | IBM, poetry

I’m not generally a fan of Charles Bukowski, but today I reread this poem and was moved. Source

Guest post: The IBM Model D Executive typewriter

by Richard Polt | May 24, 2020 | IBM

I’m glad to present a guest post by Peter Stuart. Peter is known among typewriter collectors as an expert on typefaces, including the proportional typefaces offered on IBM Executive typewriters. He was recently featured on the Austin Typewriter, Ink. podcast....

Poem of the day: callitypy

by Richard Polt | Apr 18, 2020 | IBM, poetry

(See here for a different sort of “callitypy.”)

Report from a Remington 17

by Richard Polt | Mar 8, 2018 | Gossen, IBM, Remington

Mark’s blog Here’s the Tippa in New York’s Maritime Hotel during my visit in December 2015. The Remington 17:

Herman’s 2017

by Richard Polt | Oct 22, 2017 | Caligraph, contest, Herman's, IBM, typing competition

You meet the nicest people here, and they all seem to have excellent shirts … And then there is Herman’s little typewriter collection. Here are a few of my faves … Don’t be too jealous, one of these is a reproduction … Even Herman’s...