So this is really a quick update for some new discoveries. If anyone has a Victor V86p and found this page -- today is your lucky day.
Recently, I ordered another set of Stone Chinese Typewriter, Stone MS-1300 and MS-1301. They're dirty cheap -- 400 RMB for MS-1300 and 300 RMB for …
In case you misseed it -- I talked about the backgrounds of the MS-240x typewriter in the previous article. In this article, I'm going to discuss the hardware design of the legendary Stone MS-240x Chinese Typewriter (四通 MS-240x 中英文打字机) designed and sold in the mid-1980s …
While typewriters for European languages was available since the 1800s, Chinese typewriter was always hard to build. In the late 80s in PR China, a company, Stone Company (四通公司), in coordination with Mitsui & Co., Ltd, released a series of revolutionary Chinese typewriters. It was adequately priced, user …