Brother EP44 links

Literally just a bunch of links to other things.  All were active as of December 2023.

Picture on Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brother_EP-44_Schreibmaschine_Drucker_(1984)_(24493897618).jpg

Used as a teletype: https://www.hackster.io/news/nino-ivanov-brings-dec-s-pdp-8-minicomputer-out-of-the-60s-and-onto-an-arduino-near-you-c7745e17e7fa

On the typewriter database: https://typewriterdatabase.com/Brother.EP-44.10.bmys

The printer component was sold as separate product: https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/13613/Brother-HR-5-Thermal-Transfer-Printer/

A blog post: http://journeyman.online/printing-device-of-the-new-technology-age-part-2/

Ted Munk’s post: https://munk.org/typecast/2015/11/03/baby-wedge-redux-brother-ep-44/

Customising TasWord and printing from a Timex/Sinclair micro to the EP44: https://www.timexsinclair.com/article/tasword-ii-tasman-serial-interface-brother-ep-44-printer/

A complimentary review: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/11678623/brother-ep44-the-messui-place

Another review: https://worldofspectrum.org/files/large/7d6195c15960b99

An award it won — iF award?: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/design-classics-past-present-future-brother-ifs-ian-metcalfe/

The manual is available in various places online: http://munk.org/projects/Brother-EP44-User_manual.pdf; https://etzoneorg.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/ep-44-instruction-guide.pdf; https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1203202/Brother-Ep44.html?page=38#manual

An advert of the time: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1323550993/view?sectionId=nla.obj-1607815555&partId=nla.obj-1323571538#page/n35/mode/1up

Another advert: https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1505016111/view?sectionId=nla.obj-1707605796&partId=nla.obj-1505210838#page/n42/mode/1up

Rewind Museum: https://www.rewindmuseum.com/vintagecomputers.htm

Arduino thingy: https://forum.arduino.cc/t/serial-terminal-running-tinybasic/651191

Reddit 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/llluf9/im_in_click_clack_bbs_week_vi_entry_at_110_baud/

YouTube 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_qXlmr6QsU

YouTube 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnefSz8zzYk

The Brother EP44 dot matrix typewriter/serial printer.

The serial port (DB25 female) of the EP44. Case is loose.

The box the Brother EP44 came in.

Character set from the EP44 — ‘a’ is used to demonstrate the range of accents available

DOS prompt on the EP-44 screen

The EP-44 connected to the Armada by a home-made cable

The logo on the EP44

Using the CUPS interface at http://localhost:631 to set the options on the Brother EP-44 printer

The Australian manual of style is now free

The Australian manual of style (AMOS) (stylemanual.com.au) is a ‘practical guide to help you produce clear, accurate, engaging content’. In other words, it is a style guide to help you with grammar, formatting, document structure, presenting data, designing graphs, writing about science, doing user research, and many other aspects of writing, editing and layout.

It has 6 main sections:

1. Engaging — who are you writing for, how can you best reach them?
2. Writing — how to structure your content, decide what is in and what is out, and write it effectively.
3. Editing — how to refine your work, present it consistently, reference it properly, and so on.
4. Showing — how to present information using graphics, diagrams and infographics, and incorporate them into the text.
5. Subject areas — tricks and conventions specific to various fields and subjects.
6. Resources — quick guides (these are really handy), terms to watch out for, and some other useful information.

Until the end of 2023, AMOS was a subscription-based product, but now it is free and open. Take a look!

It has considerable breadth. It covers the core of English but also gives specifics like how to present chemical equations and mathematics, when to italicise species names, what the current conventions are for presenting graphs, and so on.