I hear you on the Typewriter Dreaker.
My grandparents had an older Underwood typewriter that I loved to type on as a kid.
Within the last few years, I've been going to Goodwill stores and found a couple of typewriters that were pretty cool.
One of the best finds though was in an abandoned house that was due to be torn down as a construction project.
Normally, my efforts at exploration follow the very strict guideline of 'take nothing but photographs and leave nothing but footprints'. However, in this case, the 'tip' I got was from a friend who was, shall we say, well in the know of the situation of this house and they advised me the house is going to be bulldozed into a pile of rubble and burned. When I found an old 1930s/40s era Royal typewriter, well...
I just could not bring myself to leave it behind. It took only a bit of cleaning and TLC and the typewriter is easily one of the most comfortable I have ever used.
Now that you mention it, my grandparents had an older electronic calculator as well that I messed with as a kid.
Hammer. Nice one Dreaker.
