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30.11.2024
Historische Bürowelt No. 138 / December 2024

This issue contains

  • The Boston index - A beauty of "some merit"
  • Compteur Lafond – A "Pocket calculator" of the rarest kind
  • Adding machines in pocket watch format
  • Maintaining an even typefece: slodering type and replacing the platen cover
  • 100 years of Walther Calculators - Part IV: W-Serie 1950 – 1972
  • Addendum to "100 Years of Walther Calculators part III: R-Series 1948 – 1955"
  • Typewriter Kosmopolit
  • The calculator developments of Gian Piero Barozzi and Giancarlo Horeschi
    for the companies Romanoni, Remington, Ricoh and Citizen
English versions of these articles can be found in the members area.

25.11.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 11/2024

This issue contains:

  • Collectors' meeting in Cologne - Looking back on November 9
  • What is an ellipsograph?
  • The North German meeting on 03.11.2024 in Braake
  • "Do you want these?"
  • 1924 - 2024 | 100 years of "DEK":
    Stenographers' association 1925 Treysa e. V. commemorates the introduction of standardized shorthand
  • Visual ontology of computing devices
  • Interesting brochure

01.11.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 10/2024

This issue contains:

  • Scanned office machine magazines with personalized access for IFHB websites
  • Collectors' meeting on Tobias Mayer and the Olivetti family in Benningen
  • Collective order for 11mm and 16mm ribbons
  • Telling wear

02.10.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 09/2024

This issue contains:

  • Typewriter Museum Bayreuth
  • Museum night at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum and meeting the day after
  • Of mice and men
  • Pilot, Elmis, Walther and biorhythms
  • Virtual International Meeting of Slide Rule Collectors
  • Meeting at the Decksteiner TC on 14.09.2024
  • Contemporary witness - Apprenticeships are not master years ...

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.

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