It's my letter-quality (none of that dot-matrix garbage) NEC Spinwriter 2050 printer. I have several font wheels for it, though not the Futura one I covet. One of these days I need to set it up along with one of my Model M keyboards as a serial line terminal.
To save space, you were supposed to use the "l" (lower-case "L"). I'm sure there's a good article about it, but all google found on a first try was this metafilter thread:
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(they must exist as they use something like that on Fringe)
This (with a usb-parallel adaptor) is a USB Teletypewriter: http://www.wabdo.com/fred/printernet/ (it's printing this thread: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/16190/Print-Stylesheet-for-Me...)
It's my letter-quality (none of that dot-matrix garbage) NEC Spinwriter 2050 printer. I have several font wheels for it, though not the Futura one I covet. One of these days I need to set it up along with one of my Model M keyboards as a serial line terminal.
http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/charles-bukows...
http://ask.metafilter.com/46743/Royal-typewriter-missing-key...