In this issue (among others):

• The historic computer page: the world’s first disk drive
• News from the IFHB Board of Directors
• Special exhibit “Office Machines in Changing Times”

Peter Muckermann

This issue contains

• The company Ludwig Spitz & Co in Berlin
  and its calculating machines TIM and UNITAS
  (english translation in the members area)
• The roots of the IFHB
• Manfred Meier - A life in the service of office technology
• The Osterwald collection in Leipzig (1910 - 1931)
  (english translation in the members area)
• The first typewriters made by Triumph
• Where are the young collectors?
• Rarities from our collections

Martin Reese

In this issue (among others):

• The historic computer page: the first mass-produced mobile phone
• Office antiquities auction in Cologne
• Collectors’ meeting at the Deckstein tennis club in Cologne
• International SHBS meeting in Sumiswald
• Regional meeting at the Radio & Telephone Museum
• Regional meeting in Stuhr (near Bremen)
• Caution: "Red"
• The mystery of the Summameter
• Members' swap meet in Pfäffikon

Peter Muckermann

In this issue (among others):

• The historic computer page: the first IBM personal computer
• The finess calculator
• Soennecken No. 174 - a pencil sharpener!
• A fischertechnik replica of the Educated Monkey
• The Phoenix Typewriter: Who wouldn't like to own one?
• News from the collecting scene
• Gold-plated Erika 5 - white Mercedes typewriter

Peter Muckermann

In this issue (among others):

• The historic computer page: the world's first laptop
• Dingwerth's Bibliography of Historic Calculating Machines
• Invitation to collectors' meeting in Austria
• Gift of a collection of IBM typewriters
• The "question of cases"
• An antique personal scale made by Frister & Rossmann
• Special Expo at the Arithmeum Museum in Bonn

Peter Muckermann