Bambino children's typewriter

DesignIn-house design
Year of Draft 1958
ProductionVEB Optima Büromaschinenwerk GND
Children's typewriter in red housing with black roller and rotary knob. The letters and numbers are attached to a metal strip that is operated by a mechanism.
DesignIn-house design
Year of Draft 1958
ProductionVEB Optima Büromaschinenwerk GND

The Bambino was a children's single-lever typewriter. Bambino is Italian and means: child. The Bambino was for children aged 4 and over. The Bambino was available from 1958.

Children could use the typewriter easily. The typewriter only had a few keys. The keys were • a large lever for writing • a green key for capital letters • a black key for lower-case letters • a red key for numbers and other characters

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Details

DesignIn-house design
Year of Draft 1958
ProductionVEB Optima Büromaschinenwerk GND
Place of productionErfurt, Germany (GDR)
ColourBlue, light blue, green, red, brown
GenreOffice and information systems
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