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1967 Olympia SG3

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  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...