That's quite possibly the coolest typewriter I've ever seen.... needs a serial interface to send it commands though... if it was hooked up to a computer it'd be even cooler.
That's a shame. Have you checked fuses and cables? Sometimes the cables get a bit brittle with age and can harden and cause the conductor to open circuit. You should be able to find a modern replacement, I'd have thought.
@@menadue I was joking. But this is the coolest typewriter. Also, I could point out and gripe that I (moving on from this typewriter) used to constantly lose hours and days of homework trying to save to floppy discs, when the media was very unreliable. The dot matrix technology which followed, had no style. Ink jet technology (which came around in 1995 for me) is a scam to sell $100 worth of cartridges (or else Epson gets you on the heads) every 2 months for anyone who actually uses their printers, as in a family or business. Today, with cloud backup and cloud editing, document backup and portability is largely solved, except for the torture of the slow loading, limited, spotty sync, and occasionally working, Google docs, which is cheaper, more in our face, and more cross device portable than Open office, MS Word, or WPS Office. MS word seems much lighter than Google docs on a desktop, but I have not explored the work flow, using anything other than Google Docs, which I loathe.... I finally found a black only laser jet that I am finally happy using, but they are rare and I had to find a refurbished unit to afford it. So, now I am trapped and back into black and white, which is fine because no one is impressed with color anymore. While I fondly and nostalgically remember that once I had affordable color in the 80s and a cooler machine. I kind of miss its graphs and watching it draw out each letter, and probably will be re watching your video a few hundred more times, occasionally, to get my reminiscence fix, over the next few decades, lol... Of course, the ability to copy and paste, save documents, rather type a page 3 times, made the dot matrix and floppy data issue seem tiny. After all, the floppy backups of the docs the typewriter created alway were unreadable when I went to edit the document. I did write my own word processor program in 1984 on a VIC 20, but I had no printer - - just a dream of having more than a 20 character correction.
That's quite possibly the coolest typewriter I've ever seen.... needs a serial interface to send it commands though... if it was hooked up to a computer it'd be even cooler.
My thoughts exactly. I did check inside and there's no unpopulated connector. I may have a go at getting some way to use it as a printer. Maybe.
I was about to ask if it had one - shame it doesn't. A lot of the Brothers at the time did.
The limit of only 20 character correction was the biggest downside. But in retrospect it was the coolest typewriter ever made.
What a design and concept, I love it!
Pulled mine out of the closet this weekend -- the pens oddly still have ink; but the power supply no longer supplies current.
That's a shame. Have you checked fuses and cables? Sometimes the cables get a bit brittle with age and can harden and cause the conductor to open circuit. You should be able to find a modern replacement, I'd have thought.
Not sure why we moved away from these to these computers that constantly glitch and freeze.
I think maybe because you can't save documents? If it had some form of storage then you could work on documents over a long period of time as well.
@@menadue I was joking.
But this is the coolest typewriter.
Also, I could point out and gripe that I (moving on from this typewriter) used to constantly lose hours and days of homework trying to save to floppy discs, when the media was very unreliable. The dot matrix technology which followed, had no style. Ink jet technology (which came around in 1995 for me) is a scam to sell $100 worth of cartridges (or else Epson gets you on the heads) every 2 months for anyone who actually uses their printers, as in a family or business. Today, with cloud backup and cloud editing, document backup and portability is largely solved, except for the torture of the slow loading, limited, spotty sync, and occasionally working, Google docs, which is cheaper, more in our face, and more cross device portable than Open office, MS Word, or WPS Office. MS word seems much lighter than Google docs on a desktop, but I have not explored the work flow, using anything other than Google Docs, which I loathe.... I finally found a black only laser jet that I am finally happy using, but they are rare and I had to find a refurbished unit to afford it. So, now I am trapped and back into black and white, which is fine because no one is impressed with color anymore. While I fondly and nostalgically remember that once I had affordable color in the 80s and a cooler machine. I kind of miss its graphs and watching it draw out each letter, and probably will be re watching your video a few hundred more times, occasionally, to get my reminiscence fix, over the next few decades, lol...
Of course, the ability to copy and paste, save documents, rather type a page 3 times, made the dot matrix and floppy data issue seem tiny. After all, the floppy backups of the docs the typewriter created alway were unreadable when I went to edit the document.
I did write my own word processor program in 1984 on a VIC 20, but I had no printer - - just a dream of having more than a 20 character correction.
Panasonic Penwriter was similar.
Does that use pens? I just had a search for it and it looks lik eit might be a thermal printer mechanism in it?