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This glossy Adler Favorit 2 typewriter was bought from another collector, already some time ago. It was not working, some linkages loose and...

Guest post by owner of Royal Royalite 120 - that does have a few sticky keys :)

With a wonderfully descriptive title, the 1924 Dutch edition of Meccano Book 1 contains a straight-line mechanism; 'a device to convert ...

The common Burroughs Portable adding listing machine that was introduced in 1925 uses a narrow, 7/16" ribbon. The spools are also narr...

The Marchant Pony calculator did basically work after re-assembly, but not very well. It was noisy and 'rough' to operate, although...

During a trip last week, did a stop-off at a local thrift shop. On a shelf were a well-used Hermes standard and an old Adler. That Adler was...

Now that the main functional blocks of the calculator, i.e. the carriage, the setting-drum and the carriage-shifting are all re-built, the w...