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1952 Optima Plana Serial # 218541 1952 Optima Plana typewriter, Serial # 218541 Stanislaus Strodorodofjodoff's 1952 Optima Plana typewriter. 2021-03-11 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Stanislaus Strodorodofjodoff: 1952 Optima Plana Serial # 218541 If found this machine in the interwebnet for just 20 Euros and the condition was quite excellent. After some quick cleaning and cleansing on a sunny afternoon it works like new.

1952 Optima Plana #218541

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Stanislaus Strodorodofjodoff (Stanislaus)
Created: 03-11-2021 at 04:28AM
Last Edit: 03-11-2021 at 04:43AM

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If found this machine in the interwebnet for just 20 Euros and the condition was quite excellent. After some quick cleaning and cleansing on a sunny afternoon it works like new.

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Nice surface, clean types, fresh ribbon
Nice surface, clean types, fresh ribbon


no steep steps from one row to the next, although Optima - note: top row almost levels the case
no steep steps from one row to the next, although Optima - note: top row almost levels the case

nice decals ... and all keys are present
nice decals ... and all keys are present

cute, isn't it?
cute, isn't it?



great piece of inventorship
great piece of inventorship

with flat mat beneath you can see even better how flat this device is, and it comes in stylish black and olive.
with flat mat beneath you can see even better how flat this device is, and it comes in stylish black and olive.

Hunter: Stanislaus Strodorodofjodoff (Stanislaus)

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A bloke from Germany who used to have a small computers collection to get the history of typing and text processing over periods of time. An S&N Ideal model D was the first in early 80ies. Later to be followed by an IBM Selectric as the step towards digital. Someother devices I used for typing in my professional and personal life, such as a Commodore CBM and Macintosh as well as a VAXstation as well as other things to process characters, were in the collection. The collection was ressolved due to space issues. Today the Selectric, the Ideal D and a Macintosh Classic II are the remains from the past.

Over recent years some other machines have been added which have been constructed to transfer sort of ink by contact with moveable bars which comprehends a set of letters to make any kind of writing occur magically on an empty sheet of paper. Recently an Erika S with a rare Fraktur typeface joined the party.

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I am also looking for stuff, well stuff that anyone wants to collect: special typefonts (olde German), IBM printing elements for the 88 character machine, Mignon type cylinders and pointer-plates, mint condition Smith-Coronas ...


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