For more info about this machine and how it works, see kzitem.info/news/bejne/zZpruI2frnyFl5g and kzitem.info/news/bejne/0HeNyJ1mmmSrmoY. Also, here is typing video with another weird layout: kzitem.info/news/bejne/t6ikzqeon2N0bJw
@BokBarber
Жыл бұрын
"Why have many type hammer when one giant type hammer do trick?" But seriously, that's a great machine. I love it.
@xchoochoopainx
2 жыл бұрын
I actually really like the idea of this layout. It's like drawing words
@spacelinx
4 ай бұрын
Oh wow! This cool! I just randomly did an internet search for typewriters and their history. One article I read talked about index typewriters, something I’d never heard of. Since pics of them didn’t look like anything I’d seen before, a video search for how they worked led me here. Thanks for sharing this.
@dennishamilton8009
2 жыл бұрын
That is actually an awesome bit of kit haha, whoever designed that is a genius
@siralonbh9297
2 жыл бұрын
That keyboard layout made my brain hurt
@haelscheirs_haven
2 жыл бұрын
I will soon be posting another typewriter video featuring another weird but usable layout. In the meantime, feast your eyes: typewriterdatabase.com/1937-mercedes-prima.15724.typewriter
@radhikasudheer
2 жыл бұрын
This new Osu setup looks pog.
@catoflado4977
2 жыл бұрын
I imagine that "mechanic pen" that controls the characters must run really smoothly so you can type that fast! And you must have practiced a Lot typing on this!
@haelscheirs_haven
2 жыл бұрын
Yes. It does move quite smoothly. kzitem.info/news/bejne/zZpruI2frnyFl5g covers how the stylus transmits its motion to the rotating cylinder that prints the characters.
@sevurueva5138
2 жыл бұрын
Incredible machine with an amazing font
@Solusarian
2 жыл бұрын
That script typeset looks spectacular on paper.
@tonyvernon6503
2 жыл бұрын
I just bought a Handy, a rebranded Mignon #4. It is in (mostly) good shape, I think that I will be able to get it working relatively easily once I stop working on my O'dell #2. Thank you for this, it is very useful - and congratulations on getting so fast!
@haelscheirs_haven
2 жыл бұрын
You can see the links in the pinned comment for my videos which go into detail on how the machine works.
@kokomo7807
2 жыл бұрын
I can say that the Mignon 4 I found in an antique shop truly inspired me to collect typewriters. Though I temperarily stop collecting due to economic recession in my country I do still have passion for it and will surely come back soon.
@donaldlampert331
Жыл бұрын
Just need to practice with my Mignon, and get this fast ……. Good job!
@lavorarestanca
2 жыл бұрын
That's a very interesting machine, thank you for the video. Is this layout useful for anything compared to the usual keyboard?
@haelscheirs_haven
2 жыл бұрын
I believe this layout mainly optimizes minimizing the average distance you need to move the stylus to get to the next character; if a word contains mostly adjacent characters on the keyboard/index, you can print up to five of them per second, but if for example, you have to move the stylus from 'b' to 'y', you may be limited to a rhythm of four characters per second. It wouldn't be so useful in an actual keyboard you could operate with all of your fingers.
@dairyking98
2 жыл бұрын
What a fantastic machine, although unconventional by today's standards
@chriswriter84
8 ай бұрын
My god it's a wonderfull trypewriter!!!!
@nnthayer
2 жыл бұрын
A remarkable video. I’m aware of the Mignon and other index typewriters, but videos of them in operation are few and far between - and I was always skeptical about the possibility of achieving even halfway decent speed on any of them. Happy to be proven wrong. How long did it take you to master this machine?
@haelscheirs_haven
2 жыл бұрын
I interestingly enough find it more satisfying to type on this Mignon than my Blickensderfer as in kzitem.info/news/bejne/t6ikzqeon2N0bJw, though the Mignon is more tiring. The Blick can be driven faster than the Mignon, but here I am typing on both machines at similar average rates. Both machines took a few pages of typing to get to that level. The first page I wrote on the Mignon took a grueling 2 hours to fill, whereby I've brought that down to 30 minutes.
@iannickCZ
10 ай бұрын
Very nice font type.
@BobbiMac
Жыл бұрын
That’s an amazing machine and your typing looks so fast. Is it as fast as conventional typewriting? Do you know what your wpm is?
@haelscheirs_haven
Жыл бұрын
This footage features writing at upwards of 5 characters per second (around 60 WPM) as an absolute maximum practical writing speed before you face indexing accuracy or mechanical jamming limitations, which at least in another video appears to be the speed that AEG (which became Olympia) themselves advertised back in the day. This is about as fast or slightly slower than machines like the Blickensderfer, Hammond, or Bennett "single element typewriters" which I also go into detail on in my channel. "Conventional typewriting" on typebar typewriters can with excellent technique reach between 10 to 12 characters per second, or 120 to 144 WPM. Albert Tangora back in the day was able to sustain an over 140 WPM average with very high accuracy including all the delays from manual carriage returns and page changes; see his fingers in kzitem.info/news/bejne/yIiazGegsIJ0fX4, or my slower and much less accurate ones in kzitem.info/news/bejne/0J-vyXaCmKJyp3o. Electric typewriters which provide powered assistance for the typebars can reach upwards of 180 WPM or more, as can be seen in kzitem.info/news/bejne/w2mby4iibJqpeoY.
@my_negative_world
2 жыл бұрын
Perhaps the time has come for a Frolio/Scripta/Gundka typewriter. They were a really interesting cheap alternative to full keyboard typewriters of the 1920-30s.
@SteveMacSticky
Жыл бұрын
Wow
@transhah5444
2 жыл бұрын
Didn't the typical type writers exist then?
@haelscheirs_haven
2 жыл бұрын
Certainly. This model of index typewriter just happened to be one of the few if not the only to survive this late into typewriter history.
@ErikBruchez
2 жыл бұрын
Yes they did. The first successful typewriters on the market, the Sholes and Glidden (and even the Malling-Hansen Writing Ball if you want to count it as successful), had keyboards. The Sholes and Glidden in particular had a QWERTY keyboard - which is why that layout has continued to this day. It is only later, in the 1880s and 1890s in particular, that an explosion of so-called index typewriters happened. The reason for that was that regular typewriters were very expensive, while index typewriters were much cheaper to make. As toys, or just to write a few sentences, index typewriters found a niche for a while. But they didn't come first on the market. In fact most of the "weird" typewriters came way after the Sholes and Glidden, which was very much like a modern typewriter in most respects (despite being an "upstike" machine).
@rmcar549
5 ай бұрын
It's so strange bc it doesn't even look like the pointer is touching the pad. It looks like he's swiping on a modern android! Wonder if that's where the concept came from.
@Kerrfuffle
2 жыл бұрын
The way these are designed is much more insane to me that the keyboards of today like who even thought those mechanisms through. What a headache.
@jusufagung
Жыл бұрын
It's more like the predecessor of the Selectric
@haelscheirs_haven
Жыл бұрын
Indeed, though that title goes more so to the Blickensderfer (of which you can find a detailed video on my channel), the electric version of said typewriter being exceedingly rare.
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