Monday, March 05, 2018

No. 20 - Typewriter of the Day - Canon Typestar 6

No.20 TOTD: Canon Typestar 6

I have a couple of electric typewriters, by that I mean these little battery powered machines.  They were the last crossover before the Laptop destroyed the typewriter industry.  They could do almost anything but the output they generate leaves a bit to be desired so they didn't make customers that happy.  Now they are a problem because like a lot of later typewriters they used cassettes of film ribbon, each was different and all are out of production.  This killed these machines.  Here is a picture.  You can see they were very portable.


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