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199X Smith Corona SL 470 Serial # 2184501 199X Smith Corona SL 470 typewriter, Serial # 2184501 Christopher Bailey's 199X Smith Corona SL 470 typewriter. 2023-04-24 From the Virtual Typewriter Collection of Christopher Bailey: 199X Smith Corona SL 470 Serial # 2184501 Found at a thrift store for very little money. Cosmetically excellent (excellent? It’s a slab of plastic!) except for a couple of scuffs on the lid. Everything works.

I don’t generally like electronic typewriters; I find it easy to outrun them, and they feel as though they’re going off and doing their own thing while I’m trying to write. But they can change printwheels. Since that’s the only thing that makes an electronic typewriter fun, I have three different printwheels for this one. The type specimen below is the Regency 10 wheel, which is the one that came with the typewriter from the thrift store.

199X Smith Corona SL 470 #2184501

Status: My Collection
Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)
Created: 04-24-2023 at 05:18PM
Last Edit: 04-24-2023 at 05:27PM

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Found at a thrift store for very little money. Cosmetically excellent (excellent? It’s a slab of plastic!) except for a couple of scuffs on the lid. Everything works.

I don’t generally like electronic typewriters; I find it easy to outrun them, and they feel as though they’re going off and doing their own thing while I’m trying to write. But they can change printwheels. Since that’s the only thing that makes an electronic typewriter fun, I have three different printwheels for this one. The type specimen below is the Regency 10 wheel, which is the one that came with the typewriter from the thrift store.

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The keyboard.
The keyboard.

The “Code” key acts as a second shift for a few accents and special characters. Although it has dead-key grave and circumflex accents, it has no acute accent—only an acute-accented E. You can write good French, but in spite of the upside-down question mark, I don’t see how you’re supposed to write in Spanish.
The “Code” key acts as a second shift for a few accents and special characters. Although it has dead-key grave and circumflex accents, it has no acute accent—only an acute-accented E. You can write good French, but in spite of the upside-down question mark, I don’t see how you’re supposed to write in Spanish.

Another sample of the Regency 10 wheel.
Another sample of the Regency 10 wheel.

The label on the bottom: Made in Singapore.
The label on the bottom: Made in Singapore.

The Tempo 10 wheel. If you ever thought to yourself, “I wish I could get text that looks like dot-matrix printing, but daisywheel quality,” this is your type.
The Tempo 10 wheel. If you ever thought to yourself, “I wish I could get text that looks like dot-matrix printing, but daisywheel quality,” this is your type.

Tempo 10.
Tempo 10.

This wheel is called “Script 10 12,” but it really doesn’t look right at 10 pitch. This is 12 pitch.
This wheel is called “Script 10 12,” but it really doesn’t look right at 10 pitch. This is 12 pitch.



Closed up and ready to be neglected.
Closed up and ready to be neglected.

Hunter: Christopher Bailey (cbaile19)

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I’m a writer who often writes with a typewriter to get away from the computer for a while. I think I became a typewriter collector when I bought my typewriters some industrial-grade wheeled steel shelving from a restaurant supply house. Before that I was just an accumulator, but now I’ve spent more on shelves than on all the typewriters put together. (They were all cheap.)

I have steel pens, too, which I also write with regularly. Both collections started at the same moment in 1990, at the liquidation of the head offices of the old G. C. Murphy five-and-dime chain, where I bought a Woodstock typewriter, two gross of Esterbrook Jackson Stub pens, and three bottles of Carter’s green ink.


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