Marquardt custom switches for Olympia

Contents

• Overview
• Examples
• Copies
• See also

Overview

According to Marquardt, this switch was a custom product made for Olympia for their typewriters, of which no data still remains at Marquardt. Its design is a hybrid between the the “butterfly (…)” switch (confirmed here to have been in use in 1982) and Series 6184, suggesting possibly a compromise to allow the new switch mechanism to be used in a tall keyboard assembly until a complete typewriter redesign was completed. Olympia most definitely used Series 6180, which does suggest that 6180 was internally similar to 6184.

Examples

These custom switches can be seen in an Olympia Compact S typewriter from circa November 1984.

Copies

Mitsumi made a Marquardt keycap–compatible variant of Mitsumi standard mechanical, which was found in an Olympia Startype.

See also

• Marquardt Two Fingers Typewriter switch (…) on the Deskthority wiki