For those of you who aren't lucky enough to own a copy of Beeching's
Century of the Typewriter, and those like me who don't carry it around with them every second of their lives, here are the international typewriter keyboard layouts offered by Olympia around 1974, all 272 of them.
It's been a great help in figuring out what country a particular typewriter with an unfamiliar layout is from. Apologies for the sometimes skewed keyboards; I couldn't scan them due to the binding so I took photos.
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| Afrikaans, American |
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| American |
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| American-Med/Drug, American-Chemistry, American Air Force, Amharic, Anglo-Iraq |
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| Anglo-Israel, Anglo-Persian, Anglo-Japan, Anglo-Thailand, Anglo-Siamese, Anglo-Universal |
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| Anglo-Universal, Arabic |
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| Arabic, Armenian, Belgian, Bolivia, Brazilian |
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| Brazilian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cambodia, Canada-English, Canada-French |
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| Canada-French, Chile, Czechoslovakian, Danish |
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| Danish, Dominican, Dutch, Dutch Antilles, French Egyptian |
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| Egyptian English, English, Malta English, Finnish |
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| Finnish, French |
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| French, Equatorial Africa, German, German-French, German-American, German DIN |
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| Greek, Greek-French, Greek-Latin, Guatemala, Gujrati |
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| Hebrew, Hindi, Honduras, Hong Kong |
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| Hungarian, Iceland, Indonesian, Italian |
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| Italian, Japan Farrington, Katakana Japan, katakana-Latin, Korea, Laos |
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| Lettish, Library, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonian Cyrillic, Malta, Misra-Hindi, Mozambique-Angola |
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| Mozambique-Angola, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norwegian |
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| Panama, Persian, Paraguay, Pashtu, Philippines |
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| Polish, Portuguese, Romanian |
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| Romanian, Russian, Russia-Ukraine, Siamese |
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| Siamese, Singhalese, Slovakian, Spanish |
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| Spanish |
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| Spanish, Spanish-Hispano, Sudan, Suriname, Swedish |
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| Swedish Pharmacy, Swiss, Tamil |
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| Telegraphy, Turkish, Ukraine, Universal |
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| Universal, Urdu |
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| Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia-Cyrillic |
