In this issue (among others):

• Curiosities of historic office technology (Shop window dummy)
• North German regional meeting in Hamburg-Braak
• Regional collector’s meeting in Essen
• 20th CeBiT collectors meeting in Hannover-Berenbostel
• Program of the Typewriter Collectors’ Meeting, Partschins
• The Chateau calculators
• Monthly swap meet in Pfäffikon, Zürich
• Notes on ribbon technology

Peter Muckermann

Rediscovery in the cultural heritage collection of the ETH Zurich:

• a rare 160-year-old calculating machine of the Strasbourg watch maker Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué, the world's oldest surviving keyboard adder
• a 150-year-old stepped drum calculating machine by Charles Xavier Thomas of Colmar, the world's first successful mechanical calculator

Herbert Bruderer

In this issue (among others):

• Curiosities of historical office technology
• More information on the early Webb Adder
• Information on the Nuremberg IHFB meeting
• Special exhibit on "machines that write" in the Attendorn South Sauerland museum
• The fearsome IBAN

Peter Muckermann

In this issue (among others):

• Curiosities of historical office technology
• Discovery of two century-old logarithmic calculators in Zürich and Basel
• Demolition of the former Groma factory in Markersdorf
• Book review: From the Ledger to the Office

Peter Muckermann

In this issue (among others):

• Curiosities of historical office technology
• Take 2! Exhibit of typewriters by Kay Kostka
• Typewriter Comet no. 2
• Job ad for typists from India
• Treasures from the Archive of the Diocese of Passau
• Members’ swap meet in Pfäffikon

Peter Muckermann