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   08.10.2024 Rechenmaschine Austria1, Feder gebrochen, ein Ersatz gesucht. (updated)
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02.10.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 09/2024

This issue contains:

  • Schreibmaschinenmuseum Bayreuth
  • Museumsnacht im Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum und Treffen am Tag danach
  • Von Mäusen und Menschen
  • Pilot, Elmis, Walther und Biorhythmen
  • Virtuelles Internationales Meeting der Rechenschiebersammler
  • Treffen am Decksteiner TC am 14.09.2024
  • Zeitzeuge – Lehrjahre sind keine Herrenjahre…

02.09.2024
Historische Bürowelt No. 137 / September 2024

This issue contains

  • The answer to the riddle: Why Minerva - Resulta - Regina - Spezial and Summira are all related - Part II
  • Stickney – the unique one
  • History of the development of shorthand writing - Part 4: The further development of the DEK
  • 100 years of Walther calculators - Part III: R series 1948 - 1955
  • Addendum to the article "Automatic multiplication with mechanical calculating machines" in HBw 136
  • microwriter, Typewriter – non-printing
  • Production estimates of calculators, typewriters and the like, with serial numbers
  • Double anniversary for Tipp-Ex and Mistake Out
  • Replicas - Rare typewriters and calculators have been replicated for over 100 years
English versions of these articles can be found in the members area.

27.08.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 07+08/2024

This issue contains:

  • Advance notice: IFHB meeting with general meeting in Osterweddingen near Magdeburg
  • International Collectors' meeting in Partschins (Parcines) 2024 and vacation
  • Mercedes-Euklid with special features
  • Collectors' meeting in Stuhr on July 06, 2024
  • LOGA Calculator AG - Search for product dating documents
  • Two book presentations
  • Tractor meeting in Hutzfeld with IFHB advertising
  • Spectacular find: 170-year-old Amsler polar planimeter turns up
  • Are you still grinding or are you already blasting?

30.06.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 06/2024

This issue contains:

  • From the Executive Board meeting on June 9, 2024
  • ETCetera No. 142
  • Curta II with setting lock
  • Curious delivery
  • Auerbach numbering stamp
  • Exhibition "100 years of Groma typewriters"
  • The last night in the museum:
    About the dissolution of the Museum for Historical Office Technology Naunhof near Leipzig
  • My story on collecting
  • Addendum to "Integrated circuit 1973" in Hbw-Aktuell 05/2024
  • A contribution to the small calculation aids in the supermarket
  • Slide rule with magnetic tongue holder

28.05.2024
Historische Bürowelt No. 136 / June 2024

This issue contains

  • 100 Years of Walther Calculators - Part 2: R-Series 1927 – 1943
  • The extensive color range of the Erika model range 5 / 6 / M / S
  • Effortless division on any mechanical adding device
  • Senator – an unusual typewriter
  • Automatic multiplication in mechanical calculating machines
  • Development history of shorthand writing – Part 3: the long road to a unified shorthand
  • The answer to the riddle: Why Minerva - Resulta - Regina - Spezial and Summira are all related - Part I
English versions of these articles can be found in the members area.

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