![]() ![]() But, as I reminded myself, the typed line is uneven and less appealing than the results from the Olympia. ![]() The Olivetti is build like a brick out-house and will last a lifetime. Looking at the two portables I immediately recognised the dilemma of choosing between them. Portable they might be, but I wouldn’t dare set one up in Starbucks because the noise would have me thrown out. Before the age of the personal computer these heavy portable typewriters were all we had if we wanted to be productive out of the office. ![]() We now slip a tiny MacBook Air into our bags and set off for the day. Seeing these two machines on the desk reminded me that before 1980 they were the nearest thing we had to laptop computers. These are fine examples of the mechanical portable typewriter in its most refined form Below: Similar vintage Olympia Traveller De Luxe. Above: My late 1960s Olivetti Lettera 32 (Ethernet cable not required). Just what I need, I thought, to type some envelopes and Christmas thank-you notes. ![]() Miraculously, after 20 years buried among junk, both were in reasonable working order and, in the case of the Olivetti, the fabric ink ribbon still had some life left in it. Memories came flooding back, so I dusted off the cases and put them to work. During a periodic ferret among the junk in my garage I uncovered two ancient portable typewriters, an Olivetta Lettera 32 and an Olympia Traveller de Luxe, both from the late 1960s or early 1970s. ![]()
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