[muawiyah]

Lightweight portable machines ~ not the sort of thing you'd use in an office. I know WE didn't buy any manuals in the 1960s and we were a pretty big customer ~ with 31,000 business locations and 600,000 employees.

I did enough travel and worked in enough areas that I probably would have noticed if anyone had bought a manual typewriter ~

[bvw]

Real business typewriters. Royal, Olivetti, Olympia, Remington, others.

• Underwood Touchmaster
  Tilman Elster collection

  Advertised with the common theme of "Golden Touch" as were so many 1950's Underwood machines, both standard and portable. This model replaced the Underwood 150 in 1957, and was built until part-way through 1960. In most essential features, the following Underwood standards are quite similar through to the end of production in the mid-1960's, following merger with Olivetti in 1963.. This machine is serial J13-8072733 and was built in 1958.

  Source Underwood Typewriter Gallery

• Vintage 1960s Remington Monarch Manual Typewriter

  This 1960s Remington Monarch typewriter is so very Mad Men! Joan Holloway, eat your heart out! The Remington Monarch was manufactured beginning in 1962, through the decade.

  The typewriter’s body is metal, with lovely, clean lines, and a predominantly two-tone color scheme in dove gray and soft-white. They top of the keys mirror the body's white tones, with the undersides of the keys being a fabulous, funky, dark brown. The machine measures roughly 11"w by 12"d by 4 1/2"h.

  Source = http://www.etsy.com/listing/54608028/vintage-1960s-remington-monarch-manual?image_id=168739506

The Remington is sort-of-portable. The Underwood is most definitely not. Manual typewriters are still being made.

[bvw]

Geesh, I remember that my Dad’s offices purchased new heavy office manuals in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. I also remember thinking I had made the big time when I blew a wad on a portable electric Olivetti for personal use that was the same year the Apple II came out. Before that I used cheap portables and old hand-me-down Underwoods or Royals.