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05.06.2018
New: HBw-Aktuell 06/2018 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • The historic office technology page: the second portable MOCKBA (MOSCOW)
  • Favorite tools: An interchangeable key ring tool
  • Minutes of the IFHB meeting in Essen
  • The German Typewriter Museum in Bayreuth
  • International Typewriter Collectors' Meeting in Partschins
  • Mechanical calculator presentation at the Karlsruhe Technical Institute
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

02.05.2018
New: HBw-Aktuell 05/2018 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • The historic office technology page: the first portable MOCKBA (MOSCOW)
  • Favorite tools
  • Report of the IFHB meeting in Essen (April 13-15, 2018)
  • Book launch: Milestones of Computing Technology (2nd edition)
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

04.04.2018
New: HBw-Aktuell 04/2018 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • The historic office technology page: Fennia - a somewhat different Crandall
  • Presenting the candidates for the Board of Directors (election on April 14)
  • Report from the North German regional meeting in Braak
  • 24th spring meeting of office collectors in Garbsen
  • A visit to the Binarium Museum in Dortmund
  • Current and upcoming exhibitions
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

04.04.2018
Historische Bürowelt No. 111 / April 2018

This issue contains

  • Heinrich Schweins = Heinrich Schweitzer.
    News from the life of the well-known typewriter designer
  • Siemag-Multiquick: A Badenia TAV 13 Duplex calculator with electrical data transfer
  • Rheinmetall: Calculating machines based on a sandwich principle
  • 1957: From my life as a Rheinmetall specialist (English version in the members area)
  • Eichner-Organisation in Frankfurt a.M. and Neuenhain /T.: The Eichner story
  • Stoewer Record - two new prototypes
  • From the collector's scene: How did I get to the IFHB
  • Canon Canola 162 from 1969
  • New Looks Into Old Offices: hospital office Quierschied 1917

Martin Reese

01.03.2018
New: HBw-Aktuell 03/2018 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • The historic office technology page: the first pocket calculator with LCD display
  • Favorite tools
  • Program for the international typewriter collectors’ meeting in Partschins
  • Program for IFHB general assembly in Essen
  • Report from the board of directors
  • Information about the election of the board of directors
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

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