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Environmentally Unfriendly
Irony. Had this electronic typewriter been a Brother Oko the burglar might have taken it … The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, January 1993 Articles about the electronic typewriter range from the...
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Brother CE-700 Instruction Guide
The lady on Gumtree who advertised this tattered and yellowed instruction guide for a Brother CE-700 electronic typewriter for a few dollars (rather than throw it in the bin) deserves almost as much...
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Xerox Takes a Memo
It’s a little known fact that the Brother EM-411 sold in the USA and Canada (and sold as the CE-650 in Europe and Australia) is the same typewriter as the Xerox Memowriter (apart from obvious...
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Typewriter Agony Aunts
Yes, that’s right Millie, those Packard Bell ribbons were interchangeable, and so were the typewriters. Packard Bell never made any of them, they were made by Korean companies Sharp and Samsung....
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The Electronic AEG
Come the dawn of the electronic age, Olympia made some attempt, initially, to retain the look, if not the feel, of the typewriters that came before. Some continuity of design is evident in the...
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‘Tronics
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the search for a suitable name for the latest and most innovative electronic typewriter inevitably led manufacturers to opt for a name that well and truly associated...
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Praxis Makes it Personal
The specification for the 1983 Olivetti Praxis 20, makes for unimpressive reading: it has a print speed on the low side (8 cps), and a noise emission reading on the high side (69 dBA). The 1986...
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Canon Fodder (Part Nine)
Taiwanese-made portable electronic typewriters of the Canon QS- series of the mid 1990s were sold around the world, in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia, and ranged from the QS-50 to the...
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Canon QS-300 Instruction Guide
The Canon QS-300 Instruction-GuideDownload A surprisingly good electronic typewriter!
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Panasonic KX-R305
In Japan, Matsushita earned themselves the nickname Maneshita (Copy Cat) due to their tendency to maneru (copy) the technologies marketed by their rivals. NEC Spinwriter “thimble” printers, for...
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Oh Gabriele (Yet Again)
In the early days of the ET, “portability” meant you could stow your trusty machine inside a small suitcase and “lug it” between offices. Seen online, the Adler Gabriele 8008 looks bulky: As bulky,...
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Lex Looter
I now have a working $10 (AUD) Lexikon 83DL typewriter and a second Pica 15 golf ball (in addition to the Eletto 12 ball I obtained by buying a non-working Lexikon 82). I say “working” even though the...
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TEC: Two to Tango
Unless my eyes deceive me, the “new office product” on the desk in this press photo, taken on the premises of Professional Office Products, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, circa the 9th of July 1983, is a...
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Brother AX-325
This 1994 charcoal-grey USA-made Brother AX-325 portable electronic typewriter is (I’ve decided) the Official Typewriter of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. It’s a typewriter that was happily looking forward...
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