197X Olivetti RITA #9865298
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Jerry Himes (JJH)
Created: 09-02-2024 at 05:59AM
Last Edit: 09-30-2024 at 07:58AM
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Description:
Probably Spanish-made Olivetti DORA, but for some reason renamed to RITA. The only examples I've seen online have been from Finland, except one from Estonia, and even that had the same keyboard layout. Wonderful to type with, but the bell is very quiet on this particular machine, even quieter than usual for Olivetti ultra-portables; so quiet in fact, that you cannot hear it over the typing noise. Sadly cleaning the mechanism and bending the hammer a bit did nothing to help with the problem.
Standard Pica typeface and the modern Finnish Standard keyboard layout.
Sold in September 2024.
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Hunter: Jerry Himes (JJH)
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Status: Typewriter Hunter
Points: 825
I have been looking for ways to spend less time on electronic devices, and because of this I started doing my writing and translation work with pens and pencils, and now on typewriters as well. I have noticed that adding typewriters to the process has been beneficial to the quality of the text, plus it's just more fun this way.
I have started selling and giving away some of my machines now that I have figured out which ones I want to keep. Some people have asked me for working typewriters, so I have been on the lookout for machines purely for that purpose as well. As fun and instructive as it has been, soon it is time to finish this collecting and tinkering and move back to my original intention: writing. I hope.
Machines sold/given away:
Triumph Gabriele 20
Hermes 3000 (French 3rd gen.)
Student (Brother) Portable
Optima (Zentronik) Mod. 42
Scheidegger (Olivetti) President
Olympia SG 3 N
Olivetti RITA
Adler Tippa S
Adler Contessa de Luxe
Olivetti Lettera 32 (1972, Barcelona)
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