View down onto two similar looking greenish boxy-shaped typewriters from 1971
1971 was a year of change. It brought out boxier typewriter designs like the dense plastic body shells of this French manufactured Hermes 3000 and a very similar, but rarer Sears Newport, which was manufactured by Messa in Portugal.

Which one would you have chosen?

Angle on a Hermes 3000 (further back) and a Sears Newport (foreground) on an oak library card catalog.

A light green 1971 boxy Hermes 3000 with greyish-cream keys sits to the right of a 1971 avocado green Sears Newport typewriter

 

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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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