#electronic typewriter

[titsold]

Guys I’m so serious did I fuck up should I have gotten this

[fabio-27125]

This is a Sharp PA-1020 electronic typewriter, one of the last series before PC‘s officially replaced typewriters in general, like it was from the late 80‘s to the mid 90‘s.

It works with unrecharchable batteries (4x D), and it already hat lots of functions you possibly wouldn’t expect of something that’s still called a „typewriter“.

So you can change the font and it saves up to 6500 signs , with an external RAM-card up to 99 Pages, before you have to print them. You also have the possibility to add a „Spelling-Module“ for auto correction and it is has a calculator function too.

I can‘t mention everything, but here‘s the link to the user manual of the PA 1050, which works basically the same:

https://www.usermanualguide.com/manuals/sharp/PA1050_OM_GB.pdf

[fishmech]

my three test sheets done with the Brother WP-760D

with the speed of the printer, a full on page in default pitch and spacing could take as much as 5.5 minutes to print out depending on how dense the text is, while on the tightest pitch it can exceed 8 minutes per page lol

[fishmech]

so recently my old brother electronic typewriter/word processor got dug up. i got this originally at a yard sale at a church when i was in high school long after it was out of date, and had to carefully drag it home on my bike!

first time testing it with actual paper and i fucked it up by accidentally locking the roller in place so the first few lines overprinted themselves and it was crooked - after that i tried again and things went fine. then i went ahead and fucked about trying to fill up a page typing stuff in, starting with going through the three keyboard modes to try to grab all the characters it can print, then fucking around with formatting and letter pitch settings.

for some reason i can’t get it to successfully format any of my old 3.5 inch double density disks even though it’s supposed to use them, albeit in its custom 240 kilobyte format which is really weird and like, 1/3 the data such disks should be holding. so that basically means reading disks from this either requires one of the other brother printers that use the same format or very careful messing around with certain older PC diskette drives and custom software.

i used to have disks in its format around somewhere with stuff on them, but i have no earthly idea where i’d put them. pretty sure i wrote some fanfic or otherwise weird sex stories on that late late at night in high school kinda fucked up sleep meds???? anyway really the coolest thing about this is the ink ribbon still works after probably like a decade since last touched? ofc at least once it got past the initial bit of dried up ribbon that had been exposed all this time.

it’s real easy to get well ahead of the typing mechanism on this thing while in direct-typing mode, and it makes a hell of a racket when you use word processor mode and have it auto-type pages out from that. 13 characters per second just isn’t that great although most of the letter shapes are still in good condition.

[fishmech]

Doubt

[akumanoken-archive]

Found a relic in staples today

[coolestgadgetscom]

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[abyssal-hymns]

Feeling slightly anachronistic.

My classmate informed me that an office upstairs in my school building is clearing out surplus furniture and equipment. While I could have used a nicer office chair for my computer room at home, the fact that I use public transit to get to and from school would have made transporting such a thing back home slightly awkward. I instead walked away as the new owner of a working IBM Wheelwriter 1000 electronic typewriter. The thing is as big as my torso and weighs as much as a small child but hey, it was free. I think I might use it to type up one of my next novels... just because I can.

Now I just need to wrangle this mofo onto the subway and then onto the commuter train. Thank god I've been doing upper body work.