Re: Optacon Typewriter lens
- From: "mickey" <micka@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 16:39:24 -0400
We have two Smith-Corona electric typewriters which we use for writing
checks and it would be soooooo good if we could fill out forms. That's
something I'd love. Imagine, not having to wait for someone to read the
silly form.
I get surveys from the Democratic Party, which I'd dearly love to
participate in, but can't justify using reader time for that.
Mickey Prahin
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Phone: (614) 670-4011
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----- Original Message -----
From: "don bishop" <w6smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: Optacon Typewriter lens
> 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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