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News from the members areaThe bulletin board currently contains 7586 entries. The last topics were

   07.05.2024 Suche Koffer mit Bodenbrett für Imperial B (new)
   07.05.2024 Alpina URM Hilfe gesucht (updated)
   06.05.2024 Zweipolige Anschlusskabel (updated)

The calculator encyclopedia currently contains 2296 entries. The latest are

   07.05.2024 Kienzle Klasse 200 (Buchungsm.), Kienzle Apparate GmbH
   05.05.2024 Adder , Arthur James Postans
   05.05.2024 Thales CE (3. a), Thales Werke

The typewriter encyclopedia currently contains 1567 entries. The latest are

   07.05.2024 Continental (Buchungsm.) BSR Rapidus, Wanderer Werke
   07.05.2024 Ruf (= Hermes Ambassador Electric, Vers. d), Paillard S.A.
   07.05.2024 ADLER electric 151f / 151d, Triumph-Adler AG

30.04.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 04/2024

This issue contains:

  • 30 years of collectors' meetings in Garbsen
  • Measuring tape with disk
  • Article from the "Südkurier" No. 73
  • SHIFT HAPPENS
  • Book review of a rediscovered book
  • 1+1 remains 10 - New edition
  • A beastly device ...

30.03.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 03/2024

This issue contains:

  • Small local meeting in Ludwigsburg
  • Marchant quick calculation machines
  • Historical typewriter exhibition opens in Hofheim
  • Historical typewriters: my passion
  • "Colorful office machines" at the collectors' meeting in Braak
  • PAROS Pfeiffer-Addi roller saver
  • A current story from the past from the series "That was tomorrow"
  • 1924 - 2024: 100 years of GROMA typewriters

01.03.2024
Historische Bürowelt No. 135 / March 2024

This issue contains

  • 100 years of Walther calculating machines Part 1: The Pre-series models
  • My virtual water tank - The analog computer "The Analog Thing"
  • Material analysis of a typewriter type
  • ADLER model 16
  • History of the development of shorthand - Part 2: The most important German shorthand schools
  • The Arithmaurel, the prototype of a fascinating calculating machine
English translations of these articles can be found in the members area.

22.02.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 02/2024

This issue contains:

  • Treasurers' report for the 2023 financial year
  • Andreas Mattes introduces himself
  • Alpad ribbon and coil catalog
  • High-Tech 1930
  • Showcase exhibition on computing technology in Braunschweig

05.02.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 01/2024

This issue contains:

  • Interactive price lists on the IFHB website
  • Mechanical calculating machines in the Arithmeum
  • Special exhibition in the Arithmeum (until 05.05.2024)
  • The LANDIN rack and pinion adder, the original model of the RAPID
  • Adler Model 7: a hypothesis on naming
  • Technology world ENTER reopened
  • Addendum to Valufix - Interesting currency converter

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