Chris Aldrich
Musings of a Modern Day Cyberneticist
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https://boffosocko.com/2026/10/28/55836856/
Since October 7th, my blog has now drawn 17 generative AI comments on posts which have made it past spam filters. Their comments and questions have been fairly natural sounding, but are bland restatements of the posts themselves. All the websites and email addresses for these…
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https://boffosocko.com/2026/10/07/5-x-8-metal-card-index-from-hunt-manufacturing-co-lit-ning-products-division/
This seemed like a nice way to enter the exciting world of 5 x 8″ index cards. A pittance of $5.00 at the local thrift shop also included a full set of Universal Paper Goods Stock No. 58-25 card dividers with both alphabetic and numeral printing.
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https://boffosocko.com/2026/10/02/55836777/
Anthony, I’m glad you finally managed to get your own segment pick from Paul at Bremerton Typewriter. They’re really quite lovely and clever. I will say that oddly, since I bought it, none of the typewriters I’ve gotten since are terribly gummed up as badly as a stretch of them…
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https://boffosocko.com/2026/09/30/royal-triumph-adler-r-700/
I went searching at Star Typewriters yesterday for a nice mid-century Adler Universal. As if he knew I was coming, Helmut had this lovely Royal/Triumph-Adler R 700 sitting right up front on the counter. It’s essentially a Royal-badged version of the Adler Universal 200 which was…
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https://boffosocko.com/2026/09/26/55836733/
Thanks for your reply Ted. I’m putting some text here in the case that your site filters out img tags the way most WordPress comment sections do. Clicking through to my site will provide the photo of the typed response if this is the case. Tom has a snippet of code which may…
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Okay Typosphere, Who else is using their typewriter to converse with others via web and Webmention?
As I was scrolling along yesterday, a post about the lovely Professional Elite typeface popped up in my feed on Reddit. It linked back to Tom Fasano’s website, so I read the original there. I noticed a syndication icon at the bottom and stopped dead in my tracks! Had I run into…
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https://boffosocko.com/2026/09/24/an-exceptionally-uncommon-webmention/
Tom, a hello from my typewriter to yours!
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A visit to Helmut Schulze at Rees Electronics/Star Typewriter
Usually I’m so busy chatting and marveling when I visit Helmut that I totally forget to take a few photos. Fortunately someone stopped in for some ribbon on a Hermes yesterday, so I took a moment to document some of the density of typewriters in Helmut’s spectacular typewriter…
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What words could we use to better describe the soul of a typewriter?
Hot take: Is it just me or has the word “snappy” ceased having meaning within the typosphere? I’ve heard “snappy” applied to the best typewriters, the worst typewriters, and nearly everything in between. While almost everyone uses it with a positive connotation, the noise of the…
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What is the prettiest typewriter typeface?
I often see typewriter enthusiasts “debating” over which is the prettiest or best typeface, and often, they’re making their judgement on one machine they happen to have or really wish they had. Rarely are these judgements made with multiple typefaces on the same page for easier…
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https://boffosocko.com/2026/09/11/emotional-support-typewriter/
Phrase of the year: “emotional support typewriter”! h/t Elisa Cristina Makoon-Singh
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Cook Books Published as Recipe Cards
What I wouldn’t give to have some popular cookbooks like Rombauer’s The Joy of Cooking, Bittman’s How to Cook Everything, Better Homes & Gardens’ New Cook Book, Brown’s Good Eats, America’s Test Kitchen books, or Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street published as recipe cards in 4 x…
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Royal Standard Typewriter Collection
I’m slowly closing in on a completist collection of Royal standard typewriters. Here’s most of my collection so far. Only a few major must haves left, but also still a few to finish refurbishing. Seven are fully refurbished, though two still need some small tweaks; all type but…
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https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/22/comparison-of-the-1971-hermes-3000-and-the-1971-sears-newport/
1971 was a year of change. It brought out boxier typewriter designs like the dense plastic body shells of this French manufactured Hermes 3000 and a very similar, but rarer Sears Newport, which was manufactured by Messa in Portugal. Which one would you have chosen?
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https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/19/1971-hermes-3000-3rd-generation-portable-typewriter/
Purchased from from Jan M. Macho in Pasadena, CA. This was the personal typewriter of his father John J. Macho, Sr., an émigré from Czechoslovakia who was in regional sales for Paillard in America and sold millions of Hermes typewriters. Jan Macho, Sr.’s grandson Chris Macho…
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Groups, Fields, and Galois: Part 1 | UCLA Extension
Dr. Michael Miller, a retired researcher at RAND, has been teaching upper level undergraduate/graduate level math courses for fun at UCLA Extension for over 50 years. This fall he’ll be introducing the areas of groups, fields, and Galois theory from abstract algebra to those…
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https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/12/1959-olympia-sm3-portable-typewriter/
Found at The Predecessors while typewriter hunting in Anacortes, WA. It was paired with another similar green Olympia SM3, but I immediately picked this one up because of its beautiful and uncommon typeface. It’ll need several new parts including rubber, but this portends to be…
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https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/11/wooden-letter-tray-stock-no-721/
Papa’s got a brand new in-box. Picked up at thrift for $3.30.
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A Stopgap Repair Solution for Impatient New Olympia SM3 Typewriter Owners
You just picked up a dusty, but somewhat functional Olympia SM3 and you know that you need to replace the rubber body bushings to prevent your carriage from hitting the body panels and scratching the paint job. The problem is that you’ve got a lovely new-to-you typewriter in…