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Not Mac: Marsland 851

CelGen

68000
On the topic of Canadian Pride I'm calling it a Marsland machine. ;)

By accident I discovered this in my city while talking to the guy at the electronics shop. Worked out a deal for the machine, documentation and a CCU for $350 which saves me the shipping for one on ebay and gets me a punch for $200 less.

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The entire machine has been rebranded by Marsland Engineering out of Waterloo Ontario. Most of the other major parts were manufactured in factories around the Great Lakes on both sides.

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The only part that's actually got TeleType branding is the UCC-28 CCU module which is essentially a telephone and the controls for a Bell 101 or 103 modem. Love to get my hands on one of those (hint hint) otherwise I have to somehow hack something else in that will work.

The machine was also fitted with the regular 20ma current loop CCU. They're bolt-in modules so you can swap them in and out.

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My machine was in excellent condition with the exception of the pedestal being missing (HINT HINT), the clutch needing an adjustment and a clip for a spring being replaced int he reader. For a few years already I owned a model 43 which is the later brother to the 33 in that it's the "low-end" machine and I hated it.

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This probably shows how very little I know of that era of information machines, but when I saw the first pic I thought "Nifty typewriter..."

 
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