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IBM Model D Executive

I purchased this last week in Wellington, Colorado. The Model D Executive has an unusual feature for a typewriter: a proportionally-spaced font.

This typewriter still needs a lot of work, I plan to have it professionally serviced soon.

I look forward to using it for writing letters.

The typewriter is HEAVY. When you hit the carriage return and the platen snaps back, it shakes the whole desk.

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lemmy.cafe

This is so slick!

I don't really know anything about typewriters - does proportionally-spaced font mean monospace or the opposite?

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sopuli.xyz

Good question! Proportional-spacing is the opposite of monospace, not all characters are the same width.

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