I saw this typewriter in the thrift store and I have no idea what it was used for in the past!
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I saw this typewriter in the thrift store and I have no idea what it was used for in the past!
We both had the idea it was used for maps or architectural plans as the part where you type is really wide, like a3 or so, and the characters are really small!
It also has all sorts of knobs which look so interesting.
If anyone knows anything about this typewriter, I would love to know!
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I saw this typewriter in the thrift store and I have no idea what it was used for in the past!
We both had the idea it was used for maps or architectural plans as the part where you type is really wide, like a3 or so, and the characters are really small!
It also has all sorts of knobs which look so interesting.
If anyone knows anything about this typewriter, I would love to know!
@sylvia Probably made for an 18 inch wide sheet of paper.
https://typewriterdatabase.com/1938-royal-kmm.8885.typewriter
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I saw this typewriter in the thrift store and I have no idea what it was used for in the past!
We both had the idea it was used for maps or architectural plans as the part where you type is really wide, like a3 or so, and the characters are really small!
It also has all sorts of knobs which look so interesting.
If anyone knows anything about this typewriter, I would love to know!
Needs more hashtags. #oldTypewriter #oldTech #I dont know
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Needs more hashtags. #oldTypewriter #oldTech #I dont know
Extra-wide typewriters were sometimes used for filling in information in business ledgers; short wide paper with many columns to make balance sheets, etc.
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I saw this typewriter in the thrift store and I have no idea what it was used for in the past!
We both had the idea it was used for maps or architectural plans as the part where you type is really wide, like a3 or so, and the characters are really small!
It also has all sorts of knobs which look so interesting.
If anyone knows anything about this typewriter, I would love to know!
@sylvia given that the only other time i've seen a platen that wide was on the typewriter terminal for the Bendix G15 mainframe computer that Usagi Electric was restoring, i'm going to guess that it was for typing a ledger.
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@sylvia Probably made for an 18 inch wide sheet of paper.
https://typewriterdatabase.com/1938-royal-kmm.8885.typewriter
@YakyuNightOwl @sylvia these were often used for accounts ledgers in landscape format, especially customer and supplier ledgers on looseleaf format in a business where a bound ledger book would be limiting due to a large number of individual accounts being required.
Maybe the sort of thing Joseph Bouiler in the Gaston Lagaffe (Guust Flater) cartoons would use in his upstairs office (hence why you don't always see him until Gaston/Guust does something that manages to bring the actual ceiling down or otherwise destroy the infrastructure of the building..)
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I saw this typewriter in the thrift store and I have no idea what it was used for in the past!
We both had the idea it was used for maps or architectural plans as the part where you type is really wide, like a3 or so, and the characters are really small!
It also has all sorts of knobs which look so interesting.
If anyone knows anything about this typewriter, I would love to know!
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Wider carriages are typically for accounting - financial documents. So probably that. -
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