Weapon of Choice: 1982 Brother Correctronic 8300
Dealer plaque for Tempe Typewriters, another one lost to time – though not really that long ago.
Weapon of Choice: 1982 Brother Correctronic 8300
Dealer plaque for Tempe Typewriters, another one lost to time – though not really that long ago.
Neat to find an odd machine making a bridge between conventional typewriters and the electronic ones to come.
It sounds clunky and unpleasant, but it does produce good-looking work, and I’m sure it’s rare. A significant typewriter, worth preserving.
It’s kind of sweet how Bill’s curiosity compelled him to fix something that doesn’t command a lot of love or respect.
I think it was mostly the fact that these were new when he was apprenticing with is Dad at the shop, so he had worked on dozens of them and remembered them, if not really fondly, just as an interesting puzzle – and hadn’t seen one in 30 years. Then I came along and expressed curiousity about the machine and prolly just gave him a good excuse to satisfy his desire to see if he still remembered how they worked. He’s a true mechanic – give him half an excuse to fix something, and he’ll dive right in. :D
So is the daisy wheel driven by a stepper on this thing, or some other way? It would indeed be weird if they had used a stepper for the daisy wheel but not for anything else, since they’re a lot simpler to move the carriage and platen around with.
heh, even weirder than that. You know how a normal daisywheel uses a steppermotor to run the escapement of the print head? Same thing here, except while the mechanical drawspring pulls the carriage, it’s a steppermotor that operates the release of the escapement trip. It’s a weird experience that you can feel when typing – you get so used to there being a mechanical escapement, even on electric machines. :D
This machine uses the same ribbon cartridge as the Correct-O-Ball. Daisywheel probably an improvement. The Correct-O-Ball is not quite as zippy as a Selectric, but the Brother daisywheel machines were pretty fast. I owned a couple of Brother electrics in the late 1980s.
Ooff. That’s an interesting machine, but seems to have been cursed with the ugly wand. The noise alone with relegate this machine to my shed.