Bambino children's typewriters

DesignWerksentwurf
Year of Draft 1958
ProductionVEB Optima Büromaschinenwerk GND
DesignWerksentwurf
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

DesignWerksentwurf
Year of Draft 1958
ProductionVEB Optima Büromaschinenwerk GND
Place of productionErfurt, Germany (GDR)
Size Height: 10, width: 27, depth: 24.5 cm
ColourLight blue, Red, Brown
GenreOffice and information systems
Inventory no.12/2014-1-3

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