ironedorchid:

Nietzsche Typescript, written on his writing ball: A Poem. Copyright: The Goethe and Schiller Archive, Weimar, Germany

The poem in English translation:

“THE WRITING BALL IS A THING LIKE ME: MADE OF IRON
YET EASILY TWISTED ON JOURNEYS.
PATIENCE AND TACT ARE REQUIRED IN ABUNDANCE
AS WELL AS FINE FINGERS TO USE US.”

(Friedrich Nietzsche, on February 16th 1882)

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Amazing.

ironedorchid:

Friedrich Nietzsche’s typewriter, a Malling-Hansen Writing ball, model 1878. Photo taken by Dieter Eberwein.

© The Goethe and Schiller Archive, Weimar, Germany.

Hat tip to Burke from Bleak Theology for alerting me to its existence.

Of course this was Nietzsche’s typewriter. I mean, of course it was.

hollyhocksandtulips:

Life before laptops…

SCM typewriters, 1967

Hugo Werner, A-Morphic, 2002. [via 2headedsnake]

“Some places are like people: some shine, and some don’t.”

The Malaise

In his 52 years of selling and repairing typewriters, Paul Schweitzer has had to adapt to changing technology more than once. In the 1960s, when new IBM Selectrics that applied ink with typeballs instead of type bars hit the market, he learned to fix them. Later, he learned to service laser printers and fax machines to keep the typewriter biz afloat.

Now he’s learning to deal with something else entirely: new business.

“It’s swinging back around to typewriters,” Schweitzer, 72, said. “The younger people are sort of rediscovering an old manual — the Royal, the Underwood, the Olivetti, or a Remington typewriter.”

More on the Gramercy Office Equipment Company at WNYC’s Niche Market.

[Photo by Daniel P. Tucker]

nevver: Olivetti

Gerstner, Gredinger + Kutter [GGK]: Folder (open) for the IBM Executive typewriter. From Graphis Annual 64/65. Switzerland.

egoal: [これ考えた奴、頭いいのか悪いのかわからん on Twitpicから]