Chuck & Rich were editors and publishers of ETCetera for slightly more than five years; their first issue was No. 51, of September 2000, and their last was No. 72, December 2005.  Richard Polt has taken over editorship as of this time.

 

ETCetera and Will Davis

I started collecting typewriters back in August of 1999; by March 2000 I had begun my website.  That internet presence got me in contact with Chuck Dilts and Rich Cincotta, who edited and published ETCetera, the Journal of the Early Typewriter Collectors' Association at the time. 

In September 2001, I had the privilege of being interviewed for the "Collector's Corner" piece in issue No. 55; this developed into my writing an article on the Blick Universal which appeared in Issue No. 56 (December 2001.)  This was the beginning of my career in actual print; the very next issue, No. 57 (March 2002) featured my very first regular column piece, which Rich & I decided ought to be titled "Portables, etc." since I might sometimes cover other things, and since it tied in, tongue in cheek, with the magazine's name.  Since then, I've appeared in every issue except the one that was produced while my family was in the process of moving.  The article topics are listed below, oldest to newest.  The magazine is published four times a year.

No. 57; first introductory Portables, etc. article

No. 58; Modern dowel plate design, pt. 1

No. 59; Modern dowel plate design, pt. 2

No. 60; Bar-Let

No. 61; Rooy portable, pt. 1

No. 62; Rooy portable, pt. 2

No. 63; Modern doesn't equal common; Express, and Citizen

No. 64; The "European Portable" family

No. 65; John Cameron Swayze's Cole-Steel

No. 66; Collecting portables as a hobby -- a status report

No. 67; (n/a)

No. 68; Smith-Corona portables and 'parallel key action'

No. 69; the unbuilt Emerson Electric portable

No. 70; Sun, Nemcovsky, Barr, and 1920's portables

No. 71; Barlock, John Jardine, Byron -- and toys

No. 72; Victor Portable Typewriter

In addition to the regular columns above, I collaborated with Rich Cincotta on a feature article that appeared in issue No. 65 and which concerned the extremely rare, prototypical Royal and Remington electric standards which had recently been discovered.

(I'll update this page as the magazines continue to be published.)

Illustration at top of this page by Chuck Dilts / Rich Cincotta of Blick Universal formerly in their collection; now in author's collection.