The Typewriter Episode

The Typewriter Episode: It Was Supposed To Be Magazines, Elaine and the Boxes, Floor to Ceiling, Tytell Typewriter, Sorting and Divisions, Books and Ephemera and Golden Pallets,  The Typewriter Business, Peter's Last Wishes, A Project Ahead. Also: Battery Danger and Write Me 20 Times. An episode about how a simple picking up of magazines led to two truckloads of typewriter history. Some URLs worth reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/11/typewriter-man/376988/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Tytell https://www.irishtimes.com/business/no-carriage-return-for-the-jurassic-typewriter-1.304472 https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/nyregion/new-yorkers-co-mr-typewriter-new-york.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/nyregion/12tytell.html https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/19/nyregion/one-fewer-place-to-unstick-a-inicky-f-key.html http://algerhiss.com/history/the-hiss-case-the-1940s/the-typewriter/forgery-by-typewriter/forging-a-typewriter/ http://afflictor.com/2012/06/11/he-could-make-an-american-typewriter-speak-145-different-tongues-from-russian-to-homeric-greek/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/24/obituaries/mary-adelman-89-fixer-of-broken-typewriters-is-dead.html https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2020/08/a-tribute-to-peter-tytell-son-of.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/18/us/peter-v-tytell-dead.html 

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Historian and loudmouth Jason Scott shares stories of technology, retrocomputing, documentary filmmaking, and general schennanigans from his decades of travels and research. From experiences on the road while shooting documentaries to often-obscure points of order, Jason keeps a fast-moving pace and even he doesn't know where we're ending up at the end.