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News from the members areaThe bulletin board currently contains 9033 entries. The last topics were

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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

01.09.2025
Historische Bürowelt No. 141 / September 2025

This issue contains

  • Businessman Ulrich Nordmann – Globetrotter and manufacturer!
  • An Arithmometer for Lenin - Pravda reveals the truth
  • The aluminum Remington Standard 6 and 7
  • Addendum: Remington 7 in a plexiglass housing
  • Christiaan Huygens' adding and multiplying machine – the missing link? Part I
  • Restoring Typewriter Keyboards
  • How to fix stiff or stuck sliders on the CURTA Calculator
English versions of these articles can be found in the members area.

23.08.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 07+08/2025

This issue contains:

  • Ten years of the Willi Heinlein Typewriter Museum in Hoffenheim
  • First Bielefeld collectors' meeting on July 26, 2025
  • The μ Museum in Rastatt
  • The fate of a special "lira counter" in the form of a pocket watch
  • A rare find
  • School visit to Alois and Jessica Brefka
  • Encounter on the highway
  • The main thing is that it's cheap: a crazy piece of kit!
  • Soennecken hole punch – supplement
  • A special collection

26.06.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 06/2025

This issue contains:

  • Anniversary meeting to mark the 100th anniversary of the "Stenografenverein 1925 Treysa e. V."
  • Exhibition of typewriters in Vohenstrauß, Bavaria
  • Soennecken's paper punch: Was the prototype a design flaw?
  • Swabian Crafts Museum, Augsburg
  • A $300 calculating machine for $2.90
  • KEE LOX Air sealed typewriter ribbon

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