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1959 Hermes Rocket Serial # 5728204 1959 Hermes Rocket typewriter, Serial # 5728204 Arlo Barnes's 1959 Hermes Rocket typewriter. 2020-06-27 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Arlo Barnes: 1959 Hermes Rocket Serial # 5728204 Missing many of the original screws.

1959 Hermes Rocket #5728204

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Arlo Barnes (ArloJamesBarnes)
Created: 06-30-2017 at 05:09PM
Last Edit: 06-27-2020 at 02:29PM


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Missing many of the original screws.

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Rocket logo
Rocket logo

serial and Q670753 mark
serial and Q670753 mark

Hunter: Arlo Barnes (ArloJamesBarnes)

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When my mom was secretary of the PTA of my (second) elementary school, someone gave her a Hermes Rocket to type the minutes so they would not have to read her handwriting. And her brother Michael, before he became my uncle, had a Smith Corona word processor he gifted me. Both of these I had years before my first computer, a gift from a teacher who was amused by the Egyptian-seriffed sheaves I would hand him but who needed editable electronic documents NOT on the SC's tiny floppies. I recall writing short stories on that word processor starring my friends and "binding" them with tapes and covers of cardboard with coloured tissue paper glued on. Good times.



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