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A typewriter that sends its keystrokes in real time to a Google Doc

by jsomers on 9/20/17, 7:07 PM with 11 comments

• by projectramo on 9/20/17, 8:19 PM

  If you want a produced, slick, expensive version of this:

  https://getfreewrite.com/

  (I am not affiliated but I am an owner of one).

• by jff on 9/20/17, 7:51 PM

  Shades of the Soviet Union's method for spying on the US Embassy's Selectric typewriters: https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/historical-fi...

• by sudoscript on 9/20/17, 8:20 PM

  I remember someone also rigged up a mechanical typewriter to run vim http://blog.qqrs.us/blog/2013/05/03/vim-on-a-mechanical-type...

• by genieyclo on 9/20/17, 8:19 PM

  Coolest thing I've seen on HN in ages, thanks for sharing

• by blacksmith_tb on 9/20/17, 10:28 PM

  There are kits to retrofit (pun intended?) usb or bt keyboard functionality into mechanical typewriters[1], though judging by the prices they charge for the finished product, it must be fairly involved...

  1: https://www.usbtypewriter.com/products/easy-conversion-kit

• by TazeTSchnitzel on 9/20/17, 7:51 PM

  ooh, fun exfiltration device. can you minituarise it?