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Accompanying the article is a stock picture of an olive Olivetti Lettera 32. It's got its cover missing, poor thing, and it appears to have had a photoshop job
by Luc 13y ago
Accompanying the article is a stock picture of an olive Olivetti Lettera 32. It's got its cover missing, poor thing, and it appears to have had a photoshop job to remove the label at the front. It looks like this is an Italian QZERTY version, which makes sense because the olive green is rare with other keyboard layouts. Millions were sold. They're nice machines - I have one with a cursive font that gives me a headache from the hammering noise whenever I use it.
- gilgoomesh 13y agoI love your attention to detail. Why weren't these details in the article? The dumbing down of the news.
- pasbesoin 13y agoI have an Olivetti... Studio, IIRC, that you can pry from my cold hands. Lovely machine. It had a sister; unfortunately, we recently lost her to a flood. I would have preferred a rescue/rehabilitation, but it wasn't my call -- and, past a point, there's only so much you can hang onto. Kind of negating my original point... But, that's nostalgia. I don't want to live on one, but a good typewriter is a bit of a monument that deserves continuing respect. And sometimes, the quality of the engineering -- and design -- is timeless.
- Luc 13y agoLook at the picture of the showroom - the Apple store of its time perhaps? http://idreamlo-tech.blogspot.be/2012/07/olivetti-studio-44-meets-its-match.html http://idreamlo-tech.blogspot.be/2012/07/olivetti-studio-44-... Their Venice showroom is a museum now: http://www.negoziolivetti.it/photogallery-0 http://www.negoziolivetti.it/photogallery-0