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5 comments:

  1. joe12/12/2011 1:16 AM

    Sam! This rattles my vintage typewriter cage! Are you abandoning your beautiful Model O?... silk ribbons?... typebars?... muscle-bound pinkies?! Say it ain't so.

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  2. Awkward Engineer12/12/2011 7:27 AM

    I could never abandon the Royal Portable. The eBay price on the Selectric was just too good to pass up.

    I haven't had it long enough to pass judgment... but I think I prefer the look, feel, sound of the portable. This might seem weird, but I think I was more prone to typos on the elelectric, like the keys were trigger happy or something.

    I do have to say, that as a mechanical engineer, I love the Selectric's type ball. The selectric will probably be Frankensteined into a crazy sort of printer.

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  3. Elliot Gruszka12/12/2011 11:25 AM

    I love the idea of turning it into a teletype machine. Reminds me a bit of Ryan's WUPHF idea from the American version of THE OFFICE.

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  4. Richard P12/12/2011 12:25 PM

    For sheer precision, speed, and electromechanical coolness, the Selectric is tops.

    I know they were used as computer terminals in the '70s but have no idea how to set that up.

    Check out this Twitter-monitoring typewriter:
    http://oomlout.co.uk/?p=79

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  5. Awkward Engineer12/13/2011 12:09 AM

    Richard P... yes! I have seen that. I'm going to say we had the same idea, conceived separately, but they sure beat me to the punch. It's pretty much exactly what I'm trying to do.

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