Spending part of the day cleaning up the 50th birthday Olympia SM3 typewriter. It’s “fuzzier” than I thought it would be initially.

A busy photo of a deconstructed Olympia SM3 typewriter sitting in pieces on a wooden dining room table. The skeleton of the machine and keys are on a white towel in the front with the platen, rod, and knobs behind it. Also in the background are the shell of the body, the paper table, and measurement guides. To the side are a variety of screwdrivers, wrenches, brushes, and miscellaneous tools. Small piles of screws are near the pieces from which they were removed.

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Chris Aldrich

I'm a biomedical and electrical engineer with interests in information theory, complexity, evolution, genetics, signal processing, IndieWeb, theoretical mathematics, and big history. I'm also a talent manager-producer-publisher in the entertainment industry with expertise in representation, distribution, finance, production, content delivery, and new media.

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    1. Nothing so satisfying as tinkering at typewriters you will get to use every day. A happy birthday indeed.

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