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News from the members areaThe bulletin board currently contains 9227 entries. The last topics were

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The calculator encyclopedia currently contains 2579 entries. The latest are

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The typewriter encyclopedia currently contains 2147 entries. The latest are

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28.12.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 12/2025

This issue contains:

  • Event "Historical Office Worlds"
  • Handover of a decorated Sholes & Glidden
  • Soennecken's "Der kleine Rechner" (The Little Calculator) as a Christmas gift
  • "Typit special characters" – what were they?
  • New interesting typewriter book
  • Turning points in the analog and digital world (book review)

01.12.2025
Historische Bürowelt No. 142 / December 2025

This issue contains

  • Diplomat 1 - an unexpected reunion after many decades
  • The Facit Man (Facitgubben) - What a character !
  • Typewriter prototype by Lajos Pereszlényi –
    The smallest typebar typewriter with a full keyboard
  • Christiaan Huygens' adding and multiplying machine – the missing link? Part II
  • Experience report "Optima Erfurt" with exotic fonts
  • "Triumphator" from Leipzig and "Lehigh" from New York –
    involuntary relatives through the First World War
English versions of these articles can be found in the members area.

22.11.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 11/2025

This issue contains:

  • Adix, Polygraph, Hamann Manus, Telefon-Joker, and more
  • 98th North German Collectors' Meeting
  • The secretary – A look at the 1950s with Munich cultural historian Annegret Braun
  • Continued fantasy ...
  • How much beer or soda did we drink?
  • New posts on Typewriters Paradise

30.10.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 10/2025

This issue contains:

  • μ-Museum – The museum at a historic calculating machine site
  • Small GREIF chain adder by B. Behr
  • Fantasy or reality?
  • Fatal typo
  • Delivery times ...
  • New posts on Typewriters Paradise

30.09.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 09/2025

This issue contains:

  • Ansbach collectors' meeting
  • Pneumatic typewriter from Soblik
  • Can't see the forest for the trees ...
  • The Dumont Calculation Disc
  • Update on upcoming events
  • Small GREIF chain calculator by B. Behr
  • New posts in Typewriters Paradise

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