Tag: Hermes 3000

• Scenes from another Evanston type-in

  Putting on a type-in last year was a lot of fun, so I was happy to be asked by the Evanston Literary Festival to host one again. This year it was at my favorite secondhand bookstore in Evanston: Squeezebox Books & Music. Rather than setting the typewriters at a table together for a shared typing…

  May 20, 2019

  # Evanston, Hermes 3000, Judge John Hodgman, Olympia SM7, Skyriter, Smith-Corona, Squeezebox, The Typewriter Revolution, type-in, typewriters

• 1946 Olympia typewriter vs. 2012 iPad – who ya got?

  Matt Thomas, via Submitted For Your Perusal, spotlights an interesting contrast between two New York Times stories in the same week. Exhibit #1, from a brief feature on Danielle Steel: After all these years, Steel continues to use the same 1946 Olympia typewriter she bought used when working on her first book. “I am utterly, totally and faithfully…

  Feb 14, 2018

  # Apple, Hermes 3000, iPad, Matt Thomas, New York Times, Olympia, technology, typewriters, World War II