by thrownawaysz
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- > I have not yet printed and tested this exact model!
Sadly that sums up the 3D printable scene perfectly. So many times I’v seen someone creating X for Y but they don’t have Y to test it but “it should work”.
- Bill Hammack (engineerguy) has an excellent video on the IBM Selectric titled IBM Selectric Typewriter & its digital to analogue converter.[1]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRCNenhcvpw
- I couldn't resist.
https://github.com/rbanffy/3270_type_element
Now I need to get myself an IBM Selectric, or make a daisy wheel printer element for my typewriter (which will eventually become a terminal).
by ProllyInfamous
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- The problem with this 3D-printed typeball is that without being injection-molded with an extremely durable plastic, it will not make good strike. I suspect it would also be torn apart (separating at the printed layers), beginning with the smaller common characters (e.g. the period/comma would quickly fail). The typeball hits the paper hard and it is under incredible rotational strains.
I've recently retired an IBM Selectric II, only because it is so damn finicky! When it is operating it is a fantastic machine, but it definitely needs a full-time technician to service (and they've almost entirely died off at this point, save for Berkeley). I got tired of the pulley creep [which eventually leads to gibberish output], only solved with continued maintenance (parts too fine for my electrician hands, and my nearsight is antiquating rapidly).
For my daily drivers, I still love my Smith Corona "Coronet Super 12", which has individual strikes and a powerful motor (for all your latenight raging / brainstorming). Can't [easily] change the font, though (which is why I have multiple S-C models).
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- Doing the devil's work.
- Comic sans is quirky and wholesome. I'm tired of pretending I don't like it.
by fitsumbelay
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- This is very cool
Had just recently looked up IBM Selectric typeballs and the possibility of 3D print custom ones but did not expect so many active projects around it.
Pretty nice time for nostalgic tinkerers to be alive ...
by treetalker
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- Dave Hayden of Austin Selectric Rescue is working on several type elements for the Selectric II: https://selectricrescue.org/
As I understand, the recent IBM Plex Mono face has been requested too.
by buildsjets
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- What do you think you’re running from? The disease is inside you!
https://achewood.com/2007/07/05/title.html
- Don’t approve of the font but do approve of hacking old tech
- Is this still post-modern or is it post-irony already?
by josefritzishere
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- Is this intended to be offensive?
by gruntledfangler
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- “You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”
by curtisszmania
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by lenerdenator
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by limbicsystem
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- Every key punch will translate into a bunny punch
https://topher1kenobe.com/phlog/graphics/bunnypunch.png
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