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Typewriter As Keyboard Mod

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

ummit writes "Erik Fitzpatrick did a nice job turning an old Smith-Corona manual typeriter into a functional keyboard, and composed a nice writeup about it, with pictures."

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  1. Not actually useful? by NotQuiteReal · · Score: 3, Informative
    Seems to be missing a lot of keys, like "Ctrl", "Alt", "~", etc.

    Even from the article... "never got the backspace to work"...

    Seems like some old typewriters didn't even have a "1" key - you just used lower case L.

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  2. not that great by Graymalkn · · Score: 5, Informative

    My wife liked it, but it isn't in use at the moment because of a few drawbacks: no 1 key, no backspace, and no Escape. I'm working on a second version that should fix these things. In fact, I think the second version will be a complete "laptop" with the screen inside the case.

    -Erik Fitzpatrick
    (the creator)

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