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03.06.2020
New: HBw-Aktuell 06/2020 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • World’s first graphic calculators
  • Documents from the past of the office world:
    Ad for the gold-plated Princess 300 typewriter
  • Schedule for the IFHB "Olympia meeting", Oct. 9-11, 2020
  • The Louis Vuitton typewriter
  • Purchasing in 1985
  • Mars typewriter found
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

05.05.2020
New: HBw-Aktuell 05/2020 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • Mercedes 2: before and after
  • Ruf 24 / Protos typewriter
  • Documents from the past of the office world:
    A 1919 letter from Felt & Tarrant in Amsterdam
  • Office antiques auction in Cologne, April 4, 2020
  • Obituaries
  • Kosmopolit typewriter found
  • Piana typewriter
  • Regent typewriter
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

21.04.2020
Unitas calculator video

Hi there I.F.H.B.,

I have a Unitas calculator I've recently got up and going again and did a YouTube video about it on my YouTube channel

The link for the Unitas video is at

Ed

01.04.2020
Historische Bürowelt No. 119 / April 2020

This issue contains

  • The memoirs of "Madame Erika"
  • Konrad Zuse – from a "calculator servant" to the father of the computer (on the occasion of his 110th birthday)
  • Slide calculator – patent DE321156 from Sabielny
  • SILMA = SIL-benschreib-MA-schine (syllable typewriter)
  • Brunsvigas Adding Machine - Born in the USA
  • Arithmeum: 20 years of exhibiting mechanical calculators
  • The "Optimus" calculating machine
  • A new look into old offices: training centre with Olympia adding machines
The complete English translation is now available in the member area.

Martin Reese

01.04.2020
New: HBw-Aktuell 04/2020 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • Curiosities from the office world
  • Machine of the month: Klein-Adler 1
  • Documents from the past of the office world:
    receipt from Greif-Werke 1919
  • A visit to the Lawena Museum in Triesen, Liechtenstein
  • Update on the IFHB election
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

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