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News from the members areaThe bulletin board currently contains 8296 entries. The last topics were

   10.02.2025 Neues vom Deutschen Schreibmaschinenmuseum Bayreuth (updated)
   09.02.2025 Erinnerung: Richtet euren personifizierten Zugang ein / Reminder: Register your personlized access (new)
   08.02.2025 Schreib- und Rechenmaschinen in Regensburg zu verkaufen (new)

The calculator encyclopedia currently contains 2416 entries. The latest are

   06.02.2025 Brunsviga D 13 Z (ehem. Nova), Brunsviga AG
   27.01.2025 Facit TK, Atvidaberg (S)
   26.01.2025 Elektronika MK 41, unbekannt

The typewriter encyclopedia currently contains 1775 entries. The latest are

   10.02.2025 BROTHER CE-51, Brother Industries LTD.
   10.02.2025 PETITE Mod. 500 (Typ 1), Byron Jardine
   06.02.2025 Vari-Typer Modell 610, Varityper Corporation

31.01.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 01/2025

This issue contains:

  • Elektrifizierte Tastatur
  • Der Hebel neben dem Vorwahlhebel
  • Bürotechnik und Bankenmuseum BREFKA, Stuhr
  • Nachtrag zu Hbw-A 12-2024: "Hätten Sie's gewusst?"

28.12.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 12/2024

This issue contains:

  • SHBS Christmas "hock" in Pfäffikon ZH
  • Symposium and collectors' meeting in Antwerp on 01.02.2025
  • Does the letter in the ADDO 1 serial numbers have a meaning?

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

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