1976 Sears Portable #J6566710
Status: Sightings
Hunter: Brian Goode (vinylspin)
Created: 01-16-2019 at 10:44AM
Last Edit: 08-21-2021 at 01:45PM
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Description:
Found this lil fella at a local Goodwill here in the Phoenix AZ area. ABS plastic body shell and ribbon cover, painted steel carriage cover did not match each other when I got it, since the plastic had yellowed from age and UV exposure. I removed the yellowing by submerging the plastic parts in water and haircoloring developer and setting it out in the sunshine for a couple of days. As far as I can tell, it's a Brother JP-1 variant, with the "switchblade" single-bar paper rest.
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Hunter: Brian Goode (vinylspin)
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I am a retro post-punk meta-hipster, bassist, raconteur, techno-archivist, humorist, optimist, bon vivant and a fan of vinyl records, early 80's Japanese hi-fi gear, photography and obsolete but useful machines of all kinds. I am the proud owner of a 1970 Hermes 3000 and a 1940's Remington Rand typing desk.
I also created a typewriter image "filter" (see my avatar). It's written in Python and generates 65-character-wide images using over 1700 actual red-and-black-ribbon'd samples from my typewriter, meaning I could actually type them out myself on an 8 1/2" wide sheet of paper with 1" margins.
My dog Koa and I live in Buckeye, AZ.
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