With some threads you have to be patient. There's nothing wrong with having an interest in electronic typewriters, but I think most here are interested in manual and electric machines, so sometimes it takes a while before you get an answer. Another reason not to delete the post is that it will appear in internet search engines, so if someone else does a search for the machines you're asking about, they will find their way here and hopefully will able to answer the question. And finally, you may have lost interest in the post, but it's here as reference for other who might have the same question; believe it or not, it happens fairly often.

No hood needed here; you are among friends, even if you like electronic typewriters! 

However, as you mentioned, broadening your view is a good idea as there were so many interesting and good quality typewriters made over the years.

skywatcher wrote:

Hi iMe

Just reading your post on electronic typewriters, I feel that anything up to but not including a dot matrix printer is a typewriter. If you have to change a type element (be that a ball or a wheel) to get a different font, it's a typewriter. I have an Olivetti ET-personal-55 wheel-writer (search Google for images) that I never use. Picked it up at a yard sale for next to nothing so if it can find a new home for the cost of shipping, all the better. PM me if this interests you. All the best,

Sky

Sky, thank you for your reply and your really kind offer. 
Unfortunately, being in Europe, I am afraid that the shipping costs will be more expansive than getting any typewriter on my local eBay... :-) 
But thanks anyway. 


The fact that I want to buy an eletr(on)ic typewriter is basically not for design sake or because I am a big fan of administrative designs of the second half of the XXth century (even if I have not against the people loving them :-), don't misunderstand what I am saying) : it's for using it. 
So, I am wondering, since I have "broadened" my potential choices, if any of the experts and amators of typewriters being on this forum know a (relatively) silent (or discreet) elect(ro)nic typewriter ? 
Thanks once again :-) 

I, too, have recently become  interested in electronic typewriters.  But I want a display so I can see what I have written before it is printed, so the bigger the display the better.  Two weeks ago I bought a Brother Word Processor from www.shopgoodwill.com for $3 plus shipping, and having lots of fun trying to figure it out.  Then it is interesting to see it print out my document, the daisy wheel going left to right, then right to left.  I have to resist the temptation to buy more daisy wheels with different fonts. I'd  love to find an inexpensive italic daisy wheel. 

Unfortunately, they are rather large, because the daisy wheel can't print in the first and last 2 inches  of  the platen, so 4 inches of width is lost.  But, being mostly plastic, and not a lot of real hardware, they are very light, so easy to  move and setup.