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Title: Commodore typewriter ?
Post by: Blacklord on January 05, 2008, 07:51 AM

Now I know Commodore used to do typewriter repairs, but this looks like a model (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Macchina-da-scrivere-Commodore-SQ-1000-SQ1000_W0QQitemZ320203655105QQihZ011QQcategoryZ74945QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) that could have been built in the 80's.

(http://i2.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/d0/06/886f_1.JPG)

Anyone seen one of these before ?

Title: Commodore typewriter ?
Post by: WonderSlug on January 05, 2008, 07:54 AM

Well, Commodore was mainly making typewriters, adding machines, and even calculators before they got into computers with the PET and VIC-20.

I still have a really old red-LED based Commodore calculator that was given to me back in the 5th grade when I was about 10 or 11 years old. It ran on a standard 9-volt battery and still works to this day.

Title: Commodore typewriter ?
Post by: Blacklord on January 05, 2008, 08:01 AM

Quote from: WonderSlugWell, Commodore was mainly making typewriters, adding machines, and even calculators before they got into computers with the PET and VIC-20.

I still have a really old red-LED based Commodore calculator that was given to me back in the 5th grade when I was about 10 or 11 years old. It ran on a standard 9-volt battery and still works to this day.

I collect C= calculators, have around 70 of them (they take up less space than computers!)

What's the model you have ?

Lance

Title: Commodore typewriter ?
Post by: Andrew Wiskow on January 05, 2008, 08:04 AM

Quote from: adminAnyone seen one of these before ?

I've never seen that model before... The only one pictured on Bo Zimmerman's site is this one:

(http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/miscCPUs/typewriter.gif)

Obviously an older model than the one you found.

-Andrew

Title: Commodore typewriter ?
Post by: Mark Smith on January 05, 2008, 09:23 AM

Quote from: WonderSlugWell, Commodore was mainly making typewriters, adding machines, and even calculators before they got into computers with the PET and VIC-20.

I still have a really old red-LED based Commodore calculator that was given to me back in the 5th grade when I was about 10 or 11 years old. It ran on a standard 9-volt battery and still works to this day.

I had one of those at school as well ... no clue where it is now, probably a land fill somewhere :-(

Mark

Title: Commodore typewriter ?
Post by: nikoniko on January 05, 2008, 10:11 AM

Here's (http://www.samstores.com/details.asp?ProdID=8797) a store selling a Commodore 30100.

(http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/8826/1typesx2.jpg)

Title: Commodore typewriter ?
Post by: Blacklord on January 05, 2008, 12:37 PM

Maybe these things are new ?

Title: Commodore typewriter ?
Post by: Golan Klinger on January 05, 2008, 03:30 PM

$394.99 USD for a typewriter? Geezum.

Title: Commodore typewriter ?
Post by: nikoniko on January 05, 2008, 04:13 PM

Here's (http://mfelker5.tripod.com/itm00032.htm) one for $69.95, but I'm not sure if the site's been updated since 2000...

Title: Commodore typewriter ?
Post by: RobertB on January 05, 2008, 07:02 PM

Quote from: WonderSlugWell, Commodore was mainly making typewriters, adding machines, and even calculators before they got into computers with the PET and VIC-20.

I don't have a C= mechanical typewriter, but I do have a C= mechanical adding machine.

Showed it off at a FCUG meeting in 2006,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/

Title: Commodore typewriter ?
Post by: airship on January 06, 2008, 08:21 AM

They were all made under contract. CBM didn't make their own stuff until they got into calculators and bought MOS.

Commodore 128 Alive!

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