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About two weeks ago, while walking from my desk to the rest room, I encountered something strange: an IBM Wheelwriter 5. The Wheelwriter 5 is an electric typewriter. It's a beige, broad-shouldered ...
It may come as little surprise to find that Hackaday does not often play host to typewriter projects. While these iconic machines have their own particular charm, they generally don’t allow for much ...
The La Crosse Public Library last month quietly retired its last remaining typewriter. There was only one patron requiring its services, and supplies were increasingly difficult to find. The patron ...
If the blinds are open, I can look left from my desk and see Ford Field in a distance. Look right, and I see a file cabinet in one of the cubicles in a distance. On that cabinet sits an IBM ...
A typewriter with keys blackened by years of frustrated fingers occupies a prominent counter at what can be Boston’s most maddening bureaucracy, the Inspectional Services Department A typewriter with ...
What do you get when you combine a Raspberry Pi 4B, a Kaypro keyboard, and a 9″ Apple ], you get the coolest AVR development workstation I’ve seen in a while. Image by [John Anderson] via Hackaday.IO ...
About two weeks ago, while walking from my desk to the rest room, I encountered something strange: an IBM Wheelwriter 5. The Wheelwriter 5 is an electric typewriter. It's a beige, broad-shouldered ...