1967 Olympia SG3
There was a time when I had convinced myself that I could somehow manage to write weekly blog posts. Funnily enough, that was the time when I had only owned three typewriters, and had zero income to afford any more. How I expected to write weekly about the same three machines is beyond me. Yet here I am with more typewriters than I know what to do with, and I haven't updated my blog more frequently than like, twice a year. Tirade aside, I'd like to tell you about the Olympia SG3, a machine that I serviced in an afternoon, and blogged about over the course of a month. The Olympia SG3 is second in line in the SG series desktops. It saw several different versions, with this one I believe being the second. How the second, second typewriter is called a 3 I'll never know. Despite lacking the cooler features of the earlier SG1, it still retains the high quality build features that made the early model so robust. Mainly the sturdy cast iron frame, which is now two tone