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03.03.2025
Historische Bürowelt No. 139 / March 2025

This issue contains

  • Out of the woodwork - The Axial
  • 100 years of Walther calculating machines even in the electronic age
  • Comptometer with single column of 60th exists
  • Remington Portable Typewriters in Metal Housings
  • Walther poodles and other advertising materials from Walther
  • ALPINA - The typewriter and its designers
English versions of these articles can be found in the members area.

21.02.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 02/2025

This issue contains:

  • Addendum to Hbw-A 12-2024: "Would you have known?"
  • Capacitors in electromechanical devices
  • Does anyone know the Herzstark "Autodiv"?
  • Symposium "400 years of the calculating machine" in Antwerp

31.01.2025
New: HBw-Aktuell 01/2025

This issue contains:

  • Electrified keyboard
  • The lever next to the preselection lever
  • Office technology and banking museum BREFKA, Stuhr
  • Addendum to Hbw-A 12-2024: "Would you have known?"

28.12.2024
New: HBw-Aktuell 12/2024

This issue contains:

  • SHBS Christmas "hock" in Pfäffikon ZH
  • Symposium and collectors' meeting in Antwerp on 01.02.2025
  • Does the letter in the ADDO 1 serial numbers have a meaning?

30.11.2024
Historische Bürowelt No. 138 / December 2024

This issue contains

  • The Boston index - A beauty of "some merit"
  • Compteur Lafond – A "Pocket calculator" of the rarest kind
  • Adding machines in pocket watch format
  • Maintaining an even typefece: slodering type and replacing the platen cover
  • 100 years of Walther Calculators - Part IV: W-Serie 1950 – 1972
  • Addendum to "100 Years of Walther Calculators part III: R-Series 1948 – 1955"
  • Typewriter Kosmopolit
  • The calculator developments of Gian Piero Barozzi and Giancarlo Horeschi
    for the companies Romanoni, Remington, Ricoh and Citizen
English versions of these articles can be found in the members area.

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