The most important question: can you play DOOM on it? 😜

Yeah but the frame rate is only as fast as you can type up each frame.

And by the time you reached the green armour powerup in the first level you'd have to replace the ribbon. :P

Funny how the scientific calculator at the right of the machine would have been worth millions in the year this typewriter was made.

At least it's in good condition. 😁

reminds me, i have an ibm selectric in my shed, been wondering whether to dust it off. maybe we could do a deathmatch. by post.

I have a Selectric II in my attic. I used that thing regularly until around 2006 or 2007 when it developed this problem where it'd eject my ribbon whenever I tried typing.

A Selectric would definitely win against my Royal Aristocrat. You can't type very fast with that thing.

Wow! I think I have the exact same typewriter somewhere in my house. Too bad they don't make them like that anymore... wait... maybe I perfer the computer.
Is that Patriot RAM at the far right in the picture? I can't quite read it.

Yeah, two sticks of Patriot 512mb DDR 400 CL3. Will probably throw them into my mom or sister's computer since I don't really have much use for them.

When I used to work at a business supply shop someone came in asking for a typewriter ribbon which we could get but had to order in & was quite expensive.

I asked him why he didn’t just get a basic pc & he said he did most of his writing in Africa away from any means of reliable power, not a problem for a typewriter!

My grandparents used to have one similar to it (just different color) but we got rid of it long ago. Most of the time I find these things more reliable than MS Word anyway. 😜