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1976 Kovac (Nakajima) M-102 Serial # 60611583 1976 Kovac (Nakajima) M-102 typewriter, Serial # 60611583 Liz Glenn's 1976 Kovac (Nakajima) M-102 typewriter. 2024-11-26 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Liz Glenn: 1976 Kovac (Nakajima) M-102 Serial # 60611583 The Kovac M-102 is an off-brand of the Sears Manual 1, which I previously thought to be made for only one year, 1974. Sears has an ad showing "Sears Manual 1" in its Fall 1974 catalog. That is not the case since Kovac M-102's serial number starts with a 6 which would indicate it being manufactured sometime in 1976 according to TWDB's Nakajima date code system. I'm going to take a wild guess that the Kovac branded typewriters are the over-stock machines(?) from Nakajima since Sears quickly moved the "Manual 1" name to a segment/basket-shifted Brother JP-5 from the Nakajima carriage-shifted ones in 1975/1976. The Sears Manual 1 branded Brother JP-5's are Brother Deluxe 1613 typewriters.

Kovac Corporation (Osaka, Japan) made, or had branded, a lot of calculators in the 1970s. The Kovac brand is on a lot of Nakajima made typewriters.

The Sears Manual 1 (Nakajima) are also branded as Neckermann Brillant Supermatic typewriters.

Pictures are from random internet sources.

1976 Kovac (Nakajima) M-102 #60611583

Status: Sightings
Hunter: Liz Glenn (Jasanna)
Created: 11-26-2024 at 06:23PM
Last Edit: 11-26-2024 at 10:23PM


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The Kovac M-102 is an off-brand of the Sears Manual 1, which I previously thought to be made for only one year, 1974. Sears has an ad showing "Sears Manual 1" in its Fall 1974 catalog. That is not the case since Kovac M-102's serial number starts with a 6 which would indicate it being manufactured sometime in 1976 according to TWDB's Nakajima date code system. I'm going to take a wild guess that the Kovac branded typewriters are the over-stock machines(?) from Nakajima since Sears quickly moved the "Manual 1" name to a segment/basket-shifted Brother JP-5 from the Nakajima carriage-shifted ones in 1975/1976. The Sears Manual 1 branded Brother JP-5's are Brother Deluxe 1613 typewriters.

Kovac Corporation (Osaka, Japan) made, or had branded, a lot of calculators in the 1970s. The Kovac brand is on a lot of Nakajima made typewriters.

The Sears Manual 1 (Nakajima) are also branded as Neckermann Brillant Supermatic typewriters.

Pictures are from random internet sources.

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