![]() (Image from Museo Tecnologicamente.) In contrast to the Tekne and Editor, the Praxis 48 is a modest-sized typewriter, primarily for home use rather than heavy-duty office use. The Praxis 48 is the most readily available Olivetti electric of this type. The diagram above comes from a service manual for the Praxis 48 that you can download here for $6.99, thanks to Ted Munk. ![]() ![]() Backspacing releases the mechanism and lets you type again. What's particularly clever is that a mechanism prevents two typebars from being activated simultaneously if you press down two keys at once, the keyboard becomes inoperative. The bail then flips up and activates the typebar. (See Tekne 3, Editor 3, and Editor 4 on TWDB.)Īs far as I know, all these Olivetti electrics use a system in which depressing a key brings down a hook (X in the diagram below) that catches on a bail (36). The Teknes and later Editors have boxy designs that are no match for the attractive lines of the Editor 2. Maybe many of the typewriters in this sequence are Teknes rather than Editors. If some 50,000 machines were made, you'd think they would be more common. ![]() ![]() I note that production was very low in the first couple of years, and then sped up a bit. The last machine shown above, spotted by Brian Brumfield in the wild, is #E13-6043025 (1970). If that's right, then the ex-Brumfield machine that originally caught my eye, #E13-6003749, would date from 1966. I think this is the correct serial number sequence: ![]()
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