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News from the members areaThe bulletin board currently contains 7605 entries. The last topics were

   14.05.2024 Erika (5-9, S oder M) Zugstange gesucht (updated)
   13.05.2024 Tasten für TIM 1 (updated)
   13.05.2024 Tischrechner mit Volltext-Tastatur (new)

The calculator encyclopedia currently contains 2308 entries. The latest are

   15.05.2024 Kienzle 100 WBu (Buchungsm.), Kienzle
   15.05.2024 Olivetti Audit 930 (Buchungsm.), Olivetti
   15.05.2024 Olivetti Audit 302 (Buchungsm.), Olivetti

The typewriter encyclopedia currently contains 1573 entries. The latest are

   13.05.2024 GERMANIA Modelle 2, 3, 5, 10, 1. H&A Scheffer (Sundern), 2. Schreibmaschinenfabrik Sundern, 3. Schreibmaschinenfabrik W.Elschner (Berlin)
   13.05.2024 TRIUMPH Duofix rechnend (Buchungsmaschine), Triumph-Werke AG
   13.05.2024 TRIUMPH VZM (Typ Adler)

30.04.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 04/2024

This issue contains:

  • 30 years of collectors' meetings in Garbsen
  • Measuring tape with disk
  • Article from the "Südkurier" No. 73
  • SHIFT HAPPENS
  • Book review of a rediscovered book
  • 1+1 remains 10 - New edition
  • A beastly device ...

30.03.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 03/2024

This issue contains:

  • Small local meeting in Ludwigsburg
  • Marchant quick calculation machines
  • Historical typewriter exhibition opens in Hofheim
  • Historical typewriters: my passion
  • "Colorful office machines" at the collectors' meeting in Braak
  • PAROS Pfeiffer-Addi roller saver
  • A current story from the past from the series "That was tomorrow"
  • 1924 - 2024: 100 years of GROMA typewriters

01.03.2024
Historische Bürowelt No. 135 / March 2024

This issue contains

  • 100 years of Walther calculating machines Part 1: The Pre-series models
  • My virtual water tank - The analog computer "The Analog Thing"
  • Material analysis of a typewriter type
  • ADLER model 16
  • History of the development of shorthand - Part 2: The most important German shorthand schools
  • The Arithmaurel, the prototype of a fascinating calculating machine
English translations of these articles can be found in the members area.

22.02.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 02/2024

This issue contains:

  • Treasurers' report for the 2023 financial year
  • Andreas Mattes introduces himself
  • Alpad ribbon and coil catalog
  • High-Tech 1930
  • Showcase exhibition on computing technology in Braunschweig

05.02.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 01/2024

This issue contains:

  • Interactive price lists on the IFHB website
  • Mechanical calculating machines in the Arithmeum
  • Special exhibition in the Arithmeum (until 05.05.2024)
  • The LANDIN rack and pinion adder, the original model of the RAPID
  • Adler Model 7: a hypothesis on naming
  • Technology world ENTER reopened
  • Addendum to Valufix - Interesting currency converter

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