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My father was a CE for most of his career. I must have dozens of those things. They’re handy for all sorts of things. The last thing I used one for was removing old caulk from a window I was re-caulking.

Wow $300. My father was a CE. I have all sorts of odd specialty tools laying around. I also have an Executive typewriter that I think he restored. He was fixing typewriters when he first started with IBM in the late forties.

Well, since we’re telling our father’s typewriter stories…

After the war, my father was temporarily assigned to repair IBM typewriters in huge typing pool for the Social Security Administration. The pool consisted of 150 IBM typewriters, 150 Remington and 150 Smith Corona. I imagine the noise was deafening. Each company had one repairman who spent the entire day roaming around fixing machines.

The SSA would only hire typists who were war widows or the wives of disabled veterans.

The last season of Fringe kind of went off the rails, but the earlier seasons were must-see TV around our house.