Another 5L Revival ... This Smith-Corona XD 6500 was sold as "for parts not working". I bought it for a next to nothing price in order to get my hands on the instruction guide and the sales literature that came with it. I was expecting a fritzed machine, but surprise, surprise, once I'd remedied the … Continue reading Smith-Corona XD 6500
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Advertised in the USA in November 1984, and listed in my 1984/85 edition of the German office equipment catalogue Info-Markt 1, the Enterprise Electronic PE 900 was Smith-Corona’s first truly portable electronic typewriter: Released alongside EC-series compact electronic typewriters sourced from Nakajima, the PE 900 and a handful of American-made models such as the Smith-Corona … Continue reading Smith-Corona’s 5L Revival
Viewed from afar, the Smith Corona XD 7600 word processing typewriter (1989) is an attractive looking wedge: However, the closer you look, the uglier it gets. The keyboard cover is a little over-engineered ... Remove the Keyboard Cover from the typewriter. To replace the Cover, place it securely on the Keyboard (front then back).Owner's Manual: … Continue reading Smith Corona Breaks Bad
"Before I wrote Reservoir Dogs, I was able to get friends of mine to type my scripts. But then, there I was, writing Reservoir Dogs -- and I couldn't be more excited by anything I've ever written -- and I look around and I've got no one, there's no one who will type it for … Continue reading Pwp Fiction
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the search for a suitable name for the latest and most innovative electronic typewriter inevitably led manufacturers to opt for a name that well and truly associated their product with high-tech. Hence a plethora of -tronic, -onic, and -tron name endings, Early examples were the Smith Corona "Typetronic" … Continue reading ‘Tronics
At the very last, Smith Corona VTX- and DTX- series (and Samsung-manufactured "Wordsmith") portable electronic typewriters bore the (Sun) logo of Smith Corona Office Supplies ... Which literally shows how rapidly the sun went down on a company that was once one of the giants of the typewriter industry. At some point during the production … Continue reading The Sun SETS on Smith Corona
You have to admire Smith Corona for their tenacity. Not only did they persist in their long-running (double-decade) court battle with Brother Industries, in which each accused the other of electronic typewriter dumping, they refused to see the writing on the wall even when that writing was being written on a wall of PC computer screens, … Continue reading Smith Corona’s Last Stand
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