Monday, January 18, 2016

IBM Electromatic Sighting

I had to share this beast seen in the wilds of an antique mall. Other than a stuck "z", it appears to work fine and badly needs a new power cord. It wheezes and chugs and smells vaguely of ozone with its open armature motor design. Unfortunately, I could not find a serial number to accurately date it.





The typeface is a simplified sans in all caps. It didn't appear to be a Ham mill. Such an interesting machine, but I have no space for it.




I keep seeing silly descriptions for old machines. They are all steampunk. I would be interested in seeing this with all of the sheet metal removed. Below is the closest thing I could find to a serial number. The motor was serviced in the 1950s. Again, such an interesting critter. Must resist...


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  1. AnonymousJanuary 18, 2016 at 12:26 AM

    There should be an orphanage where we can send 'em, and where they'll be looked after. :)

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    1. Dwayne F.January 18, 2016 at 8:04 PM

      I hope it finds a good home. It isn't a prime key chopper candidate, so I have hope :)

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  2. J.A.January 18, 2016 at 8:01 AM

    Oooh, another one! My father used to sell typewriters for IBM. We found one of these monster machines in my late aunts' storage. I did a little research -- see this blog post of mine that includes pics of it: http://danteswardrobe.blogspot.com/2012/03/it-was-dark-and-stormy-typewriter.html

    Unfortunately the link posted there to the PDF of the service manual is broken, but it you check The Google using this search string "IBM Model 01 electric typewriter service manual" you'll find 2 different manuals.

    Long live the Typosphere!

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    1. Dwayne F.January 18, 2016 at 8:05 PM

      Thanks for the info! While at the store, I did a quick Google search and your blog entry turned up in the top ten!

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  3. David LawrenceJanuary 18, 2016 at 4:47 PM

    Just as a matter of interest, what price was it?

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    1. Dwayne F.January 18, 2016 at 8:07 PM

      Really reasonable at $40. That made leaving it behind all the harder, but I don't even have space to keep my IBM Executive out in the open. Sad - the innards on this machine were really beautiful bits of engineering.

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  4. Richard PJanuary 19, 2016 at 12:30 PM

    Cool. But it must be a mill, no? Why else a caps-only machine?

    Funny that there's such an elaborate mechanism to activate such a reduced, simple set of characters.

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