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1981 Toshiba BW-3182 Serial # 8384695 1981 Toshiba BW-3182 typewriter, Serial # 8384695 Ryan Wright's 1981 Toshiba BW-3182 typewriter. 2019-07-19 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Ryan Wright: 1981 Toshiba BW-3182 Serial # 8384695 Inventor is Sugimoto Kyota. I think they have been around since the 1940's. This machine has approximately 1,400 characters stored in a rotary bucket. The typist slides & rotates the bucket to place the pointer on a specific character. When the key is depressed, one of the cartridges is lifted from the bucket and the character is printed to the paper by the hammer. This model is one of the final ones made. These machines die out in the 80's with the invention of the word processor, like all typewriters. I think these machines are pretty cool.

1981 Toshiba BW-3182 #8384695

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Ryan Wright (qwerty)
Created: 03-25-2019 at 07:27PM
Last Edit: 07-19-2019 at 05:45AM


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Inventor is Sugimoto Kyota. I think they have been around since the 1940's. This machine has approximately 1,400 characters stored in a rotary bucket. The typist slides & rotates the bucket to place the pointer on a specific character. When the key is depressed, one of the cartridges is lifted from the bucket and the character is printed to the paper by the hammer. This model is one of the final ones made. These machines die out in the 80's with the invention of the word processor, like all typewriters. I think these machines are pretty cool.

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The Toshiba Logo is not from the 80's . It is from the 50's and 60's. but I believe this model is  still from the 80"s
The Toshiba Logo is not from the 80's . It is from the 50's and 60's. but I believe this model is still from the 80"s







Hunter: Ryan Wright (qwerty)

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