Where Do You Find a Typewriter to Use Once?

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | August 14, 2011

No. 682

So.  I need a typewriter, just once, to type on a form that can’t be hand printed.  I see you can still buy them.  But that would mean that I will have a piece of junk lying around that I will probably never use again.  Or should I buy one on Ebay for $75.00, use it and resell it?  That would work — if I didn’t need it tomorrow.

Perhaps I should stop by the Cambridge Typewriter Company in Arlington Mass. It has a blog. Owner Tom Furrier [sic] says that all of the “great typewriter stories” in the blog came from the typewriter enthusiasts who dropped over to have the the platens fixed on their Olympia desk models, or the like. I’ll bet he has some real humdingers. I wonder if he ever serviced a machine that belonged to Paul Revere.

I don't suppose the museum will let me borrow one.

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