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

This issue contains

• Collect computers - and build up a computer museum?
• Changing types on typewriters
• Loose typewriter types
• Carl Reuter, Benno Knecht, Otto Heer: calculator importers in the US
• The fathers of the "Triumphator"
• Siegfried Hildebrand - typewriter scientist
• Dreusickes type test devices and high-frequency soldering equipment
• The SHBS in Switzerland: a picture story
• Glance into the office: Chicago

Martin Reese