The "Underwood No. 5" typewriter PC

[ghosthunter]

The "Underwood No. 5"

Quite a while back, one of my friends sent me a "photoshopped" picture of an old typewriter (it looked like a Remington) fitted with a monitor, mouse, and printer (the printer had the platten and carriage attached to it). I looked to see if "true" retrofit would be possible, but, at the time I researched the possibility, Mini-ITX motherboards were not yet available.

I stored the picture in my archives and pretty much forgot about it. After I had completed an Apple IIe retrofit, I sent a picture of it to my friends. One of them sent a link to this website.

I looked through all of the unusual mods and came across a mantle clock mod. The clock was from the 20s or 30s and it got me thinking about the possibility of doing a typewriter mod. I pulled the picture out of my archives and did some measurements. It would work.

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http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/underwood/

[the_wildthing]

Some people either have too much time on their hands or are really into these things.

There was this guy featured on TV before who used a model aircraft carrier (USS Enterprise I think). No surprise to find the same project here: http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/carrier/

[ghosthunter]

After seeing some of the stuff they have done... I'm kinda in the mood for the mods for a custom PC...