29 Jan 2015

A bit of fun (Imperial + Erika)


Imperial Good Companion 5
I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote "starting at".
Maybe the carrying case costs extra? How rude. Either way, £1699 is a bargain.


Erika 11
Line drawings always look spiffy on a dark blue background.
I've probably spent too much time in Adobe Illustrator this week.

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  1. I think you've spent exactly enough time. (:

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  2. Illustrator is fun. The white on blue looks great. I've never seen many real blueprints in all my years in engineering -- only a few from the 30s for some broadcast towers. Always thought white on blue looks better than the blue on white which the ones now are all black on white.

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    1. I don't know why it looks better; it's not like diagrams have always been reproduced that way, it was just for a rather short time in history. But it seems right that way.

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  3. It wouldn't be a good companion for long. I'd start to resent how much it cost me! (Steve K - for some reason my WordPress credentials not accepted!!)

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    1. That's the reason why quality typewriter manufacturing will never be revived—with so many cheap and almost free, excellent typewriters around, nobody would pay the price for a new one.

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  4. This looks beautiful!

    Have you seen Rob Bowker's manual for the GC5?
    http://issuu.com/robbowker/docs/imperial_gc5

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    1. Thanks!

      Yeah, I did and I enjoyed it a lot.

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