Well, SC was not long for this world – at least, as a typewriter company — when these came out. Hard to make much money in a shrinking market with commodified hardware.
This is a competent unit from the electronic daisy wheel era.
Daisy wheel is labelled “Regency 10”
Just a few words. The machine feels cheap but the results are nice. It has a few extra characters, but not many — accents, but no Greek for example. Seems like a pretty basic model.One latch is missing, sadly
Model 5AEC, apparently
I have a manual for it; let me know if you’d like a scan (32 pages)
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My 90 y.o. father has been trying to use a computer with mixed success for years, so when he asked for a typewriter a couple of weeks ago I got him a used Smith Corona XL 1500. It has no user manual. Any chance you could shoot me a scanned copy via e-mail? Thanks!
By the way, have you seen a problem with it where when you turn it on the Lock key LED flashes and the keyboard doesn’t work? If so, then what did you do to fix it?
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My 90 y.o. father has been trying to use a computer with mixed success for years, so when he asked for a typewriter a couple of weeks ago I got him a used Smith Corona XL 1500. It has no user manual. Any chance you could shoot me a scanned copy via e-mail? Thanks!
By the way, have you seen a problem with it where when you turn it on the Lock key LED flashes and the keyboard doesn’t work? If so, then what did you do to fix it?
Please see this link — http://djg.altervista.org/downloads/Owners-manual-Smith-Corona-1500.pdf; let me know if it does not work. Print out two-sided, flip on short edge, and you should get an A5 booklet if you staple it in the middle.
Thank you for the manual!!
No worries.
I have not had that LED issue, sorry. So I am afraid I cannot offer any advice …