The thinking man’s Olivetti Valentine?
No, you’re right, I’m thinking too much. But still, think 747 and I think American wide-bodied jumbo jet. Think 6747 and I think American wide-bodied jumbo typewriter.
The heavyweight IBM 6747 had an advantage over its puny opponents in both size and reach (check out the length of that cable) …
This piece of kit defies description as a wedge.
electronic wodge?
One missing panel on the right-hand rear corner damn it …
… but otherwise intact and all seems to be working.
A handily-mounted quick reference guide (an operator’s guide, purchased separately, is coming soon) …
IBM 6746 and IBM 6747 daisy wheel typewriters were first produced in 1984, as was the identical-looking-but-with-thermal-transfer-print-head 6750.
This one has a setup date (just legible) of the 25th of March 1985, and an options setup date of the 15th of April 1985 …
The serial number (6747-110107569) is easy to see …
As is the typing line …
Grubby on the outside, this typewriter scrubbed up well.
(The IBM 6746 looks identical but doesn’t have that left-most column of memory-related keys.)
The inside of this machine still needs some TLC, especially in and around the print head …
A jumbo typewriter takes a jumbo ribbon cassette …
And a jumbo wheel …
This one proportionally-spaced …
This one 15 pitch Gothic …
This one Artisan 12 pitch …
Best of all is the keyboard. It sounds as if it’s been mounted on a Caribbean steel drum!
E.T.ZONE 
Yes, it makes you wonder why they had to be so big, unless they were trying to justify their overpricing by over-sizing.
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Types well, but the size … sometime in the ’70s, some office typewriters became gigantic consoles.
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