This issue contains

• Curta "en masse" - a true story
• In memory of Leibniz's stepped drum and its successors
• A Remington 7 changes its casing after 115 years
• Original technical drawings: the backbone of every machine production
• Typewriters in descent (newspaper report of 1998)
• The "Multimator" made by Curt Herzstark
• Teetzmann, Colt, Orga - and the mechanic Wilhelm Augustin
  (with English translation in the members area)
• The history of the typewriter collection in Dresden

Martin Reese

In this issue (among others):

• The historic office technology page: homemade cross-section models of typewriters
• Office antiques auction in Cologne
• Collectors' meeting after the auction in Cologne
• Report from the regional meeting in Essen
• 2nd update on the Austria Model 1 in wooden case (1906-08)
• Supplement to the article "300 Years of Stepped-Drum Calculator" in HBw 106

Peter Muckermann

In this issue (among others):

• The historic office technology page: the so-called "cow hoof telephone"
• North German regional meeting in Braak
• SHBS Meeting invitation: Bauma, Switzerland
• Report from the board of directors
• Southwest collectors’ meeting

Peter Muckermann

A few years ago our member Kees Nagtegaal began with an alphabetical catalogue of addiators and other slide adders.

You can find the result on his website:

http://www.mechanicalculator.com/addiator-catalogue/

There is also a webpage in Rechnerlexikon

http://www.rechnerlexikon.de/artikel/Nagtegaal_2014

Now in the fourth edition (September 2016) there are more than 420 pictures. Everybody can download the PDF-file of this book.

In this issue (among others):

• The historic office technology page: the Nokia 9000 Communicator
• Meeting in Bad Vöslau
• Regional meeting in Essen
• Meeting in Schnaittach: The life of an early German typewriter designer
• Update on Austria Model I calculators in wooden cases
• Tufertschwil swap meet, theme: children's typewriters
• Private typewriter museum in Bad Soden-Salmünster

Peter Muckermann