196X Smith Corona Secretarial 315 #7EL 1504954
Status: My Collection
Hunter: James Grooms (jgrooms)
Created: 04-25-2026 at 04:21AM
Last Edit: 04-25-2026 at 06:18AM
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Description:
New for 1968. This one rolled out with press releases and a large ad campaign.
Despite the conventional wisdom, this is not a 210/220/250 in a big metal shell. Maybe the components in this came from the 400 series standards. Photos to come.
This is a 7 EL, then is a 500 a 7 ELA? The 300 is a 7 ELB and then there is a 7 ELC.
The signs that SC is in trouble. After a big R&D effort to build this, the bean counters used the old materials from the 250 for these. I suspect if I had a 1970 Sec 500 to look at, it would be like the 300 on series.
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