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04.07.2018
Historische Bürowelt No. 112 / July 2018

This issue contains

  • HALL - A curious historic typewriter is being restored
  • 1972: A serial printing unit from Diehl for data output
  • Brunsviga's special models around 1910
  • Brunsviga model H with two counter registers
  • A telephone typewriter
  • Heinrich Kleyer and the first German serial typewriter "Adler"
  • Alwin Vater, , one of the first "Adler" representatives
  • The Adler 7 typewriter and their designers
  • Mitterhofer's typewriter - an attempt of a merger
  • The development of Curta production quantities in the first years

Martin Reese

03.07.2018
New: HBw-Aktuell 07+08/2018 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • The historic office technology page: the third portable MOCKBA (MOSCOW)
  • Office antiques auction in Cologne
  • The meeting "aftewards" at the Deckstein Tennis Club, Cologne
  • Regional meeting in Velbert and Heiligenhaus
  • The GDPR Privacy Law and its Impact on the (Historic) Office World
  • Summer prize quiz
  • Exhibit catalogue by Georg Sommeregger
  • Invitation to the Southwest Collectors’ Meeting
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

05.06.2018
New: HBw-Aktuell 06/2018 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • The historic office technology page: the second portable MOCKBA (MOSCOW)
  • Favorite tools: An interchangeable key ring tool
  • Minutes of the IFHB meeting in Essen
  • The German Typewriter Museum in Bayreuth
  • International Typewriter Collectors' Meeting in Partschins
  • Mechanical calculator presentation at the Karlsruhe Technical Institute
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

02.05.2018
New: HBw-Aktuell 05/2018 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • The historic office technology page: the first portable MOCKBA (MOSCOW)
  • Favorite tools
  • Report of the IFHB meeting in Essen (April 13-15, 2018)
  • Book launch: Milestones of Computing Technology (2nd edition)
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

04.04.2018
New: HBw-Aktuell 04/2018 (member area)

In this issue (among others):

  • The historic office technology page: Fennia - a somewhat different Crandall
  • Presenting the candidates for the Board of Directors (election on April 14)
  • Report from the North German regional meeting in Braak
  • 24th spring meeting of office collectors in Garbsen
  • A visit to the Binarium Museum in Dortmund
  • Current and upcoming exhibitions
and, as usual: advertisements, market reflections, this & that ...

Peter Muckermann

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