Hacking a typewriter into a teletype

[Tony Duell]

> 
> On 12 Feb 2010 at 6:36, Christian Liendo wrote:
> 
> > I figured some one on this list would find this useful. 
> > 
> > http://numist.net/post/2010/project-typewriter.html
> 
> Didn't a number of Brother typewriter models have the capability of 
> also serving as printers--without modifications?  I also wonder if it 

I think they did. I have a 'typewriter' somewhere that's a wide-carriage 
version of that little Alps 4-colour plotter (you know, the one that 
everybody used in the mid 1980s -- Tandy CGP115, Commodore 1520, etc). It 
has a Centronice posrt on the side and takes the same commands as said 
plotters.

I also haev a little box in my pile of oddments that cotnains a 
microcontroller, has a Cntronics socket on one side and a ribbob cable 
ending in an adge connector coming out of it). On top is a swtich marked 
something like 'typewirter/computer' I assume it's an interface for some 
modle of electornic typewriter to turn it into a printer.

> might not be better to start with a word-processor type of 
> typewriter.

I am not so sure. I would have thought you didn't want too much 
intellegence i nthe machine to get in the way.

-tony