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 stur...