@polpo Can it also be used as a printer?

@polpo if it's the alps mechanism there's lots of options for new tips.

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I love these specialized machines that tried to remake the success of the typewriter.

@polpo if we hadn't had one of those when I was a kid I wouldn't have believed they were real. Such a Rube Goldberg ass way to print text

@polpo from the graphics on the left, uhh it does charts? Are you supposed to type a spreadsheet on a 16 character display, and have it scribble graphics out of that?

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maybe can recharged with a syringe

@polpo Yay, fun! You might be surprised with those pens-- they might just work. I scanned my manual and put it on IA if you need it:

https://archive.org/details/panasonic-rk-p-400-c-manual

@polpo _what_

i want to see the output. I want to see it in action! there must be videos somewhere, right? What a bizarre typewriter idea :D

(does it do script fonts? it should do script fonts. maybe _only_ script fonts, idk :D )

@polpo I think the little Atari plotter printer used the same pens, I know it at least wasn't specific to one printer because I could get them at Radio Shack back in the day

@polpo good luck with it

@polpo I love that...I don't know why I never had one of those, I feel I should have, but I didn't. I think we'd al like to watch that working and see it's output - all of fedi awaits 😀

@polpo that is cool!

@polpo Oh, fantastic! They’re such strange devices. You’re going to have fun! And those pens can be really surprisingly long lasting.

@polpo like it has a pen tip and moves it along a sheet of paper LOGO-like to draw letters ?

@polpo I'd expect @andypiper would like, especially as those chart icons imply that it can be commanded to draw stuff.

@polpo I'm curious to see the output from this...