1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:00,980 Warning! 2 00:00:00,980 --> 00:00:02,060 This video is 3 00:00:02,060 --> 00:00:03,160 UNSCRIPTED! 4 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:05,680 The jacket is back because.... 5 00:00:06,740 --> 00:00:07,660 because. 6 00:00:07,660 --> 00:00:13,360 Uh, so, say it's the 1980's --late 1980's or early 1990's, and you've always wanted 7 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:18,669 to be able to write your letters as a document, save them to a floppy disk to edit later, 8 00:00:18,669 --> 00:00:22,730 but you've never been able to afford one of these newfangled personal computers. 9 00:00:22,730 --> 00:00:27,340 Well, Smith Corona has got you covered with this: 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:36,180 This bad boy is the Smith Corona PWP-3200. 11 00:00:36,180 --> 00:00:44,090 It is a typewriter that has a VERY large LCD display and most importantly, a floppy disk drive. 12 00:00:44,090 --> 00:00:45,090 Let's take a look at it. 13 00:00:45,090 --> 00:00:46,920 Alright so let's get into it. 14 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,290 Obviously this was a Goodwill find, as you can see by the sticker, I've had this for 15 00:00:50,290 --> 00:00:54,920 a number of years and you'll see a great example of that in just a moment. 16 00:00:54,920 --> 00:01:01,230 So really, all this is is a daisy wheel printer (and we'll look a bit more at that in a bit) 17 00:01:01,230 --> 00:01:05,770 but it's a daisy wheel printer which has been integrated into a typewriter chassis with 18 00:01:05,770 --> 00:01:09,409 a floppy disk drive and a very basic computer. 19 00:01:09,409 --> 00:01:12,600 And, well first let's turn it on. 20 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,920 Most typewriters don't turn on like this. 21 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:21,780 [various mechanical sounds, like a printer initializing] 22 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:25,060 [beep] 23 00:01:29,220 --> 00:01:32,260 Alright, so now we're in. 24 00:01:32,260 --> 00:01:36,609 So immediately, what you get is you get this word processing display. 25 00:01:36,609 --> 00:01:39,909 You'll notice that there's a switch here that says type and word processing (WP), we're 26 00:01:39,909 --> 00:01:46,270 on word processing now so when I type stuff, which is gonna be hard to do with where you 27 00:01:46,270 --> 00:01:53,929 are as the camera, you'll see it appears on the screen, the typewriter is not actually 28 00:01:53,929 --> 00:01:54,999 typing anything. 29 00:01:55,740 --> 00:02:00,340 Now the beautiful thing about this, is that you can write documents on the screen before 30 00:02:00,340 --> 00:02:03,180 you even print it, and it warns you if you've made a typo. 31 00:02:04,260 --> 00:02:05,180 [fast double beep] 32 00:02:05,700 --> 00:02:10,871 It doesn't think "typo" is a word, so once you hit the space bar it beeps at you to tell you, you 33 00:02:10,871 --> 00:02:12,990 may want to rethink that. 34 00:02:12,990 --> 00:02:18,760 Uh, also this is unique to Smith Corona apparently, these functons "Word Eraser", there's a Registered 35 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,820 Trademark thing on there so I'm guessing it's some "special feature". 36 00:02:21,820 --> 00:02:25,370 If you hit Word Eraser it just deletes that entire word. 37 00:02:25,370 --> 00:02:29,690 And if you hit Code and hit the same key, it will erase the entire line. 38 00:02:29,690 --> 00:02:33,250 But what we're really here for is the word processing function. 39 00:02:33,250 --> 00:02:37,250 So, on the right-hand side is a floppy disk drive. 40 00:02:37,250 --> 00:02:42,390 Now I'm using what used to be Microsoft Works because the floppy drive on here can only 41 00:02:42,390 --> 00:02:49,260 read 800kb formatted floppies, so any disk that has been formatted as a high density 42 00:02:49,260 --> 00:02:54,000 disk it can't read, because the read/write head is not strong enough to overwrite the 43 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:55,290 high density disk. 44 00:02:55,290 --> 00:02:59,280 So if you have an unformatted high density disk it can use it, but if it's ever been 45 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:00,850 formatted it won't work. 46 00:03:00,850 --> 00:03:08,100 So this was one of very few 800kb non-high density disks I had, and I am not in need 47 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:15,830 of Microsoft Works for the Apple Macintosh, so I went ahead and used this. 48 00:03:15,830 --> 00:03:20,400 So with it in the floppy drive, to get to what's on the disk--all of these little menu 49 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:24,320 items here, you can see they have an underscored letter. 50 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,480 To access them you hit "select" and hit that letter. 51 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:35,620 So we're gonna go to the disk menu, which is select-D. And, weirdly, you hear it access 52 00:03:35,620 --> 00:03:38,080 the floppy but it hasn't actually done anything yet. 53 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:42,150 You actually have to select Save, Recall, Erase, Rename, Join, Directory, or Other. 54 00:03:42,150 --> 00:03:43,840 So we're gonna hit recall. 55 00:03:50,990 --> 00:03:55,480 And now it brings up a directory of what is on the disk to be recalled. 56 00:03:55,490 --> 00:04:00,030 So...just so that way you can see how much of a dork I am, I'm gonna pull up this file. 57 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:04,200 But first it's gonna warn me we have text in memory, do we want to keep it or not? 58 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:05,080 No. 59 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,430 This was a homework assignment. 60 00:04:20,430 --> 00:04:26,090 When I was in my senior year of high school--I believe that was the year I got this--I'm 61 00:04:26,090 --> 00:04:31,020 such a dork that I did some of my homework assignments on this machine. 62 00:04:31,020 --> 00:04:36,610 So, if you want to just read this...this is just so incredibly, ugh. 63 00:04:36,610 --> 00:04:38,980 It's not great. 64 00:04:38,980 --> 00:04:44,330 But, it shows you the power of a machine like this. 65 00:04:44,330 --> 00:04:49,270 Now, sadly, and I bet a lot of people who bought these machines were very disappointed 66 00:04:49,270 --> 00:04:56,210 in this, the actual computer--I've no idea what system this is--but it is incredibly 67 00:04:56,210 --> 00:04:57,210 slow. 68 00:04:57,210 --> 00:05:01,590 If you want to just scroll through this, it has to re-draw line by line. 69 00:05:01,590 --> 00:05:03,240 And it is not fast. 70 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:10,250 If you hit Code and the down arrow it will redraw the entire screen but even that--this 71 00:05:10,250 --> 00:05:11,370 is not fast at all. 72 00:05:11,370 --> 00:05:13,380 This is very, very slow. 73 00:05:13,380 --> 00:05:20,470 So yeah, it's useful in that you can review an entire document before you print it. 74 00:05:20,470 --> 00:05:24,970 But this is not at all what I'd consider to be.... ideal. 75 00:05:24,970 --> 00:05:27,800 Of any sort. 76 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,000 Want to take a look at my writing when I was in high school? 77 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,100 There we go. 78 00:05:36,100 --> 00:05:39,090 So how does it actually type stuff? 79 00:05:39,090 --> 00:05:40,840 Or print stuff, I should say. 80 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:44,810 Well first, I'm actually going to reboot it here, so I'm gonna shut it off. 81 00:05:44,810 --> 00:05:48,720 'Cause I want to show you what's underneath. 82 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:54,919 So this here is the daisy wheel, this is how it's actually "typing". 83 00:05:54,919 --> 00:06:00,980 Each one of these little fins has an engraving on it that it uses to punch onto the actual 84 00:06:00,980 --> 00:06:02,480 writing surface. 85 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:07,750 This is sort of similar to the IBM Selectric golf ball type thing, but nowhere near as, 86 00:06:07,750 --> 00:06:10,670 um, well honestly nowhere near as interesting. 87 00:06:10,670 --> 00:06:16,860 And also, these are plastic and I'm always a little curious on how long these actually 88 00:06:16,860 --> 00:06:17,860 last. 89 00:06:17,860 --> 00:06:19,540 You can see there's a registration point here. 90 00:06:19,540 --> 00:06:23,310 And the idea with using the daisy wheels is that you can change the typeface or the font 91 00:06:23,310 --> 00:06:25,340 of what exactly it's typing. 92 00:06:25,340 --> 00:06:34,000 So the daisy wheel just rests in here, and then it will automatically catch. 93 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,440 And this here is the ribbon that it uses to type with. 94 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:42,389 I do not have correction tape for this machine, so... it's just what it is. 95 00:06:42,389 --> 00:06:45,510 Sadly it won't let you print anything with the cover open so I'll have to close it, we'll 96 00:06:45,510 --> 00:06:48,330 get a better angle for you. 97 00:06:48,330 --> 00:06:51,940 Just like any typewriter you load it up with paper before you begin. 98 00:06:51,940 --> 00:06:54,750 It's got markings here for what various different paper sizes. 99 00:06:54,750 --> 00:07:00,000 The unlabeled one which continues through here is gonna be your standard letter paper 100 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,600 (in the US). 101 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:21,160 So, with this machine, if we switch to typewriter mode, which I've just moved the switch into, 102 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:26,560 now it will go as you type. 103 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:28,040 So if I start typing words 104 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:34,720 [sound of typewriter, with typo warning beep] 105 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:36,120 I can't spell typing 106 00:07:36,139 --> 00:07:37,860 so it beeped at me. 107 00:07:37,860 --> 00:07:44,380 You can see...hopefully...that those words are appearing on the page. 108 00:07:44,380 --> 00:07:49,720 [more typing sounds] 109 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:51,330 I don't have any correction tape in here, 110 00:07:51,330 --> 00:07:53,199 otherwise I could go and actually correct it back. 111 00:07:53,199 --> 00:07:57,790 If I hit "Word Eraser ®" it will attempt to erase it. 112 00:07:57,790 --> 00:08:02,640 [rapid triple-clacks as it attempts to erase the type] 113 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:04,040 but there's no actual correction 114 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,340 tape in there so it's not doing anything. 115 00:08:06,340 --> 00:08:09,120 But the thing is, let me move this up a little bit. 116 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:12,520 We're gonna go back into word processing mode. 117 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,200 And I will call up that homework assignment. 118 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:26,480 [floppy drive sounds] 119 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,960 So this option here is to print. 120 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:50,020 So if we select to print the document, it gives you the option to setup which I believe 121 00:08:50,020 --> 00:08:53,290 changes the margins and stuff like that but we're just gonna go with the standard and 122 00:08:53,290 --> 00:08:55,080 hit Print, and it will fire away. 123 00:08:58,680 --> 00:08:59,680 I lied. 124 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:03,730 First it's gonna ask us if we want to print the entire document or multiple copies. 125 00:09:03,730 --> 00:09:08,540 So we can do, it's giving me little---it's pretty self explanatory so we're just gonna 126 00:09:08,540 --> 00:09:09,800 hit return. 127 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:20,120 [a cacophony of clacking and rapid-fire typing sounds begins] 128 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:50,600 OK, so I hit delete to stop the print. 129 00:09:50,620 --> 00:09:56,360 But as you can see, it can print (type) faster than anyone could actually type, though honestly 130 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:57,800 not a lot faster. 131 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:04,240 So, of course it's doing it with 100% accuracy, but if you use this thing for printing out 132 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:08,450 an 8 or 9 page letter, that process is gonna be a few minutes. 133 00:10:08,450 --> 00:10:14,500 And it's probably, uh, I would not be surprised if this takes well over two minutes to print 134 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:15,500 one page. 135 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:17,300 Which isn't exactly fast. 136 00:10:17,300 --> 00:10:18,800 So we'll get a little bit closer here. 137 00:10:19,680 --> 00:10:20,360 [typo beep] 138 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:22,280 Oh my goodness. 139 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:28,640 [keyboard sounds as Alec types without speaking because he can't type and speak at the same time] 140 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:37,760 [Another beep] 141 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:38,960 See? 142 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:40,160 Ugh. 143 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:41,560 My goodness. 144 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:45,800 [more speechless typing] 145 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,600 [You should follow the words up there ^^^] 146 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:58,760 Oh I hit caps lock. 147 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:03,300 See, if I had done that on a regular typewriter now we would be deep into the woods. 148 00:11:03,300 --> 00:11:07,060 But let's just go ahead and show you...remember how I was saying that this is slow? 149 00:11:07,060 --> 00:11:09,630 Oh my goodness it's very slow. 150 00:11:09,630 --> 00:11:13,810 Say I want to erase "IF YOU WANT TO BE SURE T". 151 00:11:13,810 --> 00:11:18,190 So in order to do that I could press and hold Backspace or I could hit the "Word Eraser ®" 152 00:11:18,190 --> 00:11:21,440 key, let's see that would be onetwothreefour five six, seven times. 153 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:25,920 I'm gonna hit it seven times and watch how long it takes it to actually process that. 154 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:36,560 Still goin'. 155 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,800 Yeah that's...that's not exactly what I'd call fast. 156 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:49,110 I don't know about you but, uh, that seems really painful, actually. 157 00:11:49,110 --> 00:11:53,170 But to continue with this little demonstration, if we select Disk. 158 00:11:53,170 --> 00:11:55,760 What we can do is we can save this. 159 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:04,280 And it just wants you to give it a name. 160 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:09,320 And I still have--Oh! 161 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:10,960 That's an interesting point. 162 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,480 We'll get back to that in a second. 163 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:16,560 I'm just gonna call it "NAMEHJ". 164 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:30,200 And now it's saved, so if you back to the disk menu, we can recall something. 165 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:35,560 We'll recall "Palindrome". 166 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:37,640 Gonna dismiss what's in memory because we saved it to the disk. 167 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:51,640 I really don't know what this document is, but now we can go back to what we were working on. 168 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:56,800 We'll have to scroll down to get to it, though. 169 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,240 Again, we'll erase what's in memory. 170 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:13,480 And now, there we're back to what we were doing. 171 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:17,480 Now obviously if you had an actual computer this would be a lot easier. 172 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:19,240 And faster. 173 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:23,660 But if you had a limited budget, these were being sold up until at the very latest--or 174 00:13:23,660 --> 00:13:25,580 the very earliest 1993. 175 00:13:25,580 --> 00:13:29,830 I saw a listing for these for sale and they were less than $300. 176 00:13:29,830 --> 00:13:33,990 So if you were on a tight budget and you wanted to be able to have many of the features of 177 00:13:33,990 --> 00:13:37,920 a word processor but didn't have your own computer, something like this might actually 178 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:39,300 be a pretty good idea. 179 00:13:39,300 --> 00:13:43,150 What I wanted to go back to was, if you saw when I was saving the file name, it was inserting 180 00:13:43,150 --> 00:13:46,160 special characters even though I was just touching numbers. 181 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:51,450 Now, that's because this emulates the way the caps lock key works on older typewriters. 182 00:13:51,450 --> 00:13:57,339 A couple odd things about the keyboard you may notice are that comma has got two commas 183 00:13:57,339 --> 00:14:01,330 on there, rather than having a special character and the comma like you'd expect today, it's 184 00:14:01,330 --> 00:14:02,870 got two commas. 185 00:14:02,870 --> 00:14:04,930 Just as this is two periods. 186 00:14:04,930 --> 00:14:09,640 That's because on older typewriters it wasn't "caps lock" it was "SHIFT lock". 187 00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:14,910 And that's why this key the default is simply "lock" and "caps lock" is an option. 188 00:14:14,910 --> 00:14:20,310 So if I hit lock, and unfortunately the light in the key does not work, you'll see that 189 00:14:20,310 --> 00:14:27,079 I type--oh, apparently I haven't actually turned it on, there we go--as I type it's 190 00:14:27,079 --> 00:14:31,440 all capital letters, but the period and comma stay period and comma because there's two 191 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:32,730 of them. 192 00:14:32,730 --> 00:14:37,430 But any time I hit a number, I'm gonna get a special character because I don't have "caps 193 00:14:37,430 --> 00:14:39,189 lock" on I have "SHIFT lock" on. 194 00:14:39,189 --> 00:14:42,230 So now every key is shifted. 195 00:14:42,230 --> 00:14:48,310 That's because in the days of manual typewriters like this, when you hit shift the entire carriage 196 00:14:48,310 --> 00:14:50,149 is lowered. 197 00:14:50,149 --> 00:14:54,779 That's actually why it's called the shift key because it shifts the carriage down. 198 00:14:54,779 --> 00:15:00,290 And you can see when you get close up that the capital letters are all on the...well, 199 00:15:00,290 --> 00:15:05,300 let's see I should actually look before I do a closeup...OK. 200 00:15:05,300 --> 00:15:09,380 So the capital letters are all at the top of each of these strikers which means that 201 00:15:09,380 --> 00:15:14,790 when it's shifted down the top is what hits the paper, and when it's not shifted the bottom 202 00:15:14,790 --> 00:15:15,790 is what hits the paper. 203 00:15:15,790 --> 00:15:21,529 And because the platen is curved, even when you're, uh, the top will miss the paper because 204 00:15:21,529 --> 00:15:23,310 it's farther away from it. 205 00:15:23,310 --> 00:15:28,310 So on a typewriter like this when you engage shift lock which is this button here, it simply 206 00:15:28,310 --> 00:15:30,860 holds the carriage in the down position. 207 00:15:30,860 --> 00:15:36,830 So if you were to type anything, it would always be the top of the row because you're 208 00:15:36,830 --> 00:15:39,279 going to have shift lock engaged. 209 00:15:39,279 --> 00:15:44,889 The typewriter, because this is mechanical, it can't decide to only print numbers as numbers, 210 00:15:44,889 --> 00:15:54,779 it's going to hit "!, ", #, $, %" et cetera, just as it's gonna hit the "@" vs the "¢" over here. 211 00:15:54,779 --> 00:15:57,680 And yes, "@" keys were on typewriters like this. 212 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:02,269 That is not something that email created, email uses the "@" key because it was a key 213 00:16:02,269 --> 00:16:04,000 nobody used. 214 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:09,520 [sound of clickity clackity typing from an old-fashioned typewriter] 215 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,560 [again, you should be looking up there^^^] 216 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,800 [a lovely gentle ding from the bell] 217 00:16:31,850 --> 00:16:36,850 So I hope you enjoyed this video into the Smith Corona PWP-3200 personal word processor. 218 00:16:36,850 --> 00:16:39,410 Thanks so much for watching, I do hope you enjoyed the video. 219 00:16:39,410 --> 00:16:42,640 Of course thank you to everyone who supports the channel on Patreon. 220 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,870 If you're interested in joining the Patreon supporters out there, please feel free to 221 00:16:45,870 --> 00:16:47,000 check out this link. 222 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:52,070 I'm gonna have a lot more videos coming soon--I finally was able to clear out my obligations, 223 00:16:52,070 --> 00:16:55,019 and what you see behind me is nearly complete. 224 00:16:55,019 --> 00:16:57,860 You'll be seeing the full extent of it in the next video. 225 00:16:57,860 --> 00:16:59,360 Thanks for watching!