Re: Optacon Typewriter lens
- From: "don bishop" <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 12:27:23 -0700
Hi Mickey,
I had the lens for the model D typewriter and really liked it. When our forms
at work became automated I didn't need the typewriter anymore and it went to
wherever all old office machines go to die. I kept the lens though and we got
a Smith Corona at home. TSI changed the mount for me so it the lens would
fit on the 2200. They changed the mount on the lens itself and put the
matching bracket on the plastic typewriter cover.
I believe all the typewriter lenses were the same except for the mounting
brackets which of course varied depending on which machine you were using it
with.
Don
On Thu, 18 May 2006 14:03:25 -0500, eggmann wrote:
Yup, I'm guilty and should know better; my offering re typewriter lens was
under a non-related heading. Anyway, there was in fact a model for the IBM
model D typewriter with the moving carriage. I liked it better than the
selectric because one could more easily position the paper to fill out forms
as well as reading what was already typed. It had two thumb screws on the
front for horizontal and vertical adjustment. The one I had melted down
along with my optacon and some other adaptive equipment, like a versabraille
(the original model) in an office fire. One of my buds said he almost cried
when he looked into my office during recovery attempts afterwards. My
adaptive equipment was a series of blackened metal and blobs.
Doug: Much More than Just a Flash in the Pan
Mickey,
There are or were two versions of the typewriter lens. There was the one
for the Smith-Corona electric typewriter which attached to the carridge.
The other was for the IBM Selectric typewriter. In that version, there was
a little rod which hung down and you would adjust the lens alignment so that
the rod was right above the little pointer which moved as the IBM Selectric
Typeball moved down the line, as there wasn't a moving carridge per se in
the Selectric versions.
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