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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: 1962 Triumph Perfekt – a perfect flow machine. Good lord, current Typecast ideas folder is full of reviews of electronic mini-wedges and stories about my current “install new Linuxes on all my laptops” frenzy. This gets more meaningful as the EOL for Windows 7 approaches, because I’m not going to do Windows […]

Weapon of Choice: 1940 Royal Aristocrat that was a $25 thrifting find back in 2013. In 2015 I had a little professional tuning done to it, so now it runs like a top. If I had whiskey, I suspect I’d start writing hard boiled detective fiction right about now. Automated dusting of the Aristocrat’s case […]

Weapon of Choice: 1982-ish Sears “The Electric 1/with correction” (Nakajima M7500). Easy-open shell, just 4 screws at the bottom. The old oily and flaccid drive belt and the remains of the shift pads. I have no idea how that little spring got loose and ended up rattling around in the machine. Pretty sure you’d have […]

Weapon of Choice: 1972 Royal Mercury. Tan older-model Aceliner for $2, a pair of Fujitsu M2551A08 floppy drives @$3 each. Also $3 for an empty older-style woodside Portable Pub case. Without the barware inside, I feel it’s a good candidate for new carrying case for my Underwood 3-Bank. Installing a new silk ribbon with metal […]

Weapon of Choice: “Easy”, 1964 Hermes 3000. Also walking around typing on a Canon Typestar 4, making notes for a Tapecast package back to JoeVC… ScottK’s”Type O +VE” Podcast Qwerty Rotten Scoundrels Podcast Is a podcast anything like a Tapecast? Digital to analog to digital… Trying to track down squeakiness in my tape deck, only […]

I’m guessing a lot of these IF-50 Computer Interface boxes that allow certain port-equipped Brother Typewriters to act as printers for many 8-Bit 1980’s computers exist, but have long ago been separated from their absolutely essential user manuals. If you’re in that situation, you’re in luck because I’ve scanned mine. Enjoy! (:

Oh good Lord, they really changed the post editor in WordPress a bunch with version 5. Hopefully, I can figure it all out and not make this post look as wonky as this new editor is making me feel. :P

Weapon of Choice: “Moneypenny” 1948 Royal Quiet De Luxe Yeehaw! I gots a Trackin’ Number! This thing begins to coalesce. :D

Weapon of Choice: 1983 Brother EP-20 “New” Dell Studio XPS from Key Snap. 6-Core AMD Phenom II X6 1045T @2.70GHz, 8gb RAM, Video: EVGA GeForce GTX 750ti w/2gb RAM. All set up and workspace cloned.. The Old machine that the XPS replaces – a 4-Core i5 Intel, 6gb RAM, no video card. I’ll be rebuilding […]

Weapons of Choice: 1983 Brother EP-20, 1984 Brother EP-44, 1986 Canon Typestar 4

Weapon of Choice: Buddy-L Easy-Writer 300   First attempt at Leafcasting: leaf between a sheet of paper and a sheet of Ko-Rec-Type. Hmmn, maybe the toy typewriter with plastic typeslugs wasn’t the best choice… “The leaves here are very small, Makes it hard to type at all!”

Weapon of Choice: 1981 Montgomery Ward Escort 550 (Brother JP-7) This typewriter as offered in the 1981 Montgomery Ward Christmas Catalog Nearing the last stand for Manual and Electric Typebar machines offered by Monkey Ward. By 1984, only the electric is offered alongside various electronic wedges, the new Brother Type-O-Graph and a selection of home […]

Weapon of Choice: “Thunderbird 3” 1966 Montgomery Wards Signature 440T My other two previous Signature 440T finds: Return Of The Typewriter Bone: 1968 Monkey Wards Signature 440T (Brother) Deja Vu All Over Again – The Twin Brother and some info I found on the 440T: The 1968 Monkey Wards catalog that shows these 440Ts The spring-loaded […]

1982 IBM Selecrtic III 12cpi Single-Pitch, Correcting. He Gone! 1990 IBM Personal Wheelwriter, he gone too! Probably 1990’s to early 2000’s Swintec 8014-8. Off to Greener Pastures. 1987 Brother Professional 90 (CX-90). Got tired of trying to make this into a printer. Weapon of Choice: 1956 Smith-Corona Skyriter – A Keeper! :D

The stipple finish paper results in some rub transfer from the ribbon, and at large magnification, an interesting embossed look. “Ephemera”? “Shops”?!? what could those buttons lead to? Weapon of Choice: “Ghost Chocolate”, 1957 Olympia SM-3

Weapon of Choice: “Cadwallader” 1963 Olympia SM-7

Weapon of Choice: “Tex”, 1957 Underwood Quiet Tab Deluxe (Golden Touch) Richard Polt’s post on his Typewriter Safari, which prompted thoughts on the Underwood Crest. UPDATE: This post came up in the Facebook ATC, prompting a discussion of this typeface, which I called “Slab-Serif”. Turns out the real name of the typeface is “Stymie”, and […]

Weapon of Choice: Indy, 1957 Tower Chieftain III Had to prune a few hundred comments when the Beta Testers for Typewriter Database Wanted! post had so many that it stopped loading. The sheer number of comments broke the page!

Undercover, live show May, 1985:

  1925 Underwood 3-Bank on TWDB 1961 Royal Futura 800 on TWDB

This 1925 Underwood Portable 3-Bank @ TWDB

The Saga of Cougar Six-Y In fact, I’m remembering how much I actually enjoy this little Cougar, and since it’s pretty disposable, I think I’ll make it my new Trunk Typer. (: Joe’s Post on his Cougar