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'The Microwriter is...a replacement
for every known method of
putting thoughts onto paper...'Newsweek 19th JUNE 1978

In modern business or professional
life, a considerable amount of time,and an ever-increasing amount ofmoney, is spent transferring thoughts
on to paper—letters, memoranda,articles and reports.
The pressing need is to have thisdone quickly and cost-efficiently.
Until this century, it could only
be done through hand-writing.
With the advent of typewriters,
many people have turned to dictating
their thoughts to a secretary or to a

dictating machine—for eventual
transcription into typewritten form.
But there are many business andprofessional people who still
originate some or all of their workthrough hand- written drafts.
Now the Microwriter makes
it possible for you to transfer yourthoughts into typewritten form
quickly and cost-efficiently—and,remarkably, without the requirementof a typist.

The Microwriter system
1. Microwriter

2. Automatic Printer

The Microwriter is a portable,
battery-operated, five-finger
machine the size of a medium-sized
electronic calculator.
You key the words into theMicrowriter, where they are displayedon a lighted panel and stored in thelarge, built-in electronic memory. You
can check the text, correct or edit it,delete or insert words or paragraphs.
The fingering of theMicrowriter is so simple that any_i
one can learn to use it in less thanhalf a day.

The Microwriter system issupplied with an automatic highquality, high-speed typing
machine. When the Microwriteris plugged into it, the printerproduces the output at up to tentimes the speed of typing. It comes
out, perfectly typed and error-free,in the form of a letter or memorandum, in single or doublespacing.
In normal office use, one
printer can handle the output of up
to 10 to 15 Microwriters.

3. TV Display

4. Cassette Storage

The Microwriter can also be
used with a television monitor,
which enables the writer to see
16 lines of text at a time, in the
precise format in which it will beprinted. This makes it easy for you
to read through your material, andto correct or edit it.

A small pocket cassette-recordermakes it possible to transfer
the contents of the memory on to amicro-cassette.
This not only provides almost
unlimited extra memory space
but also means that you can post
material back to the office whentravelling. And it enables you to keep
standard paragraphs or letters on
micro-cassettes for future reprinting
through the Microwriter.

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'...could revolutionise the office
to a far greater extent thanword processing...'COMPUTER WEEKLY 11th MAY 1978

The Microwriter at work

For the busy executive
The Microwriter has been called "thebiggest thing since man discovered
the pencil" (in the magazine ComputerTalk) and even the executive whofinds a dictating machine easy to
use and has a full-time secretary willfind a Microwriter invaluable:— where the executive works athome, at nights or weekends,
and can benefit from having hiswork typed out as he goes along,on a printer kept at home.

working on a train or aeroplaneor when travelling—if desired, thematerial can be posted to the office incassette form.
where he is writing a speech orreport and needs to edit the text andrefer to earlier text in the course ofwriting.
preparing confidential memoranda—
thoughts can be transferred into print
without involving another person.

For people on the move
For a person whose job involves movingfrom place to place, the Microwriter is an
ideal way of recording notes of interviews,
inspections or orders — or preparing areport as he goes along.
The contents of the memory canthen be printed out on returning tothe office. Or the material can betransferred on to a micro-cassetteand posted back to the office where it
can be printed out.

For authors and journalists

The Microwriter, with theTV display, gives anauthor or journalist thefacility to draft, see paragraphs of text at a time,and edit or correct—andthen to print out thematerial at any time of
day or night without
secretarial help. It alsooffers a journalist thebenefit of portability.
Notes or the final story
itself can be keyed in on
location or while
travelling back to theoffice and then rapidly
printed out as soon as
the journalist gets back.

For technical writers
The Microwriter is invaluable where areport or letter includes a significant
amount of technical wording. It
eliminates the need for reading out (orhand-printing) the spelling of eachword. It also eliminates the necessity
for careful checking of the typescript

for spelling errors—the writer reads
the display as he goes along, and theprinter reproduces the text exactly.
The same advantages apply
where the material includes asignificant amount of figures, or ofwords in a foreign language.

For the professional man
Most professional people are involved indetailed drafting of letters, documentsor reports requiring meticulous
accuracy in the choice of words. The
Microwriter, particularly when usedwith the TV display, enables the user
to see paragraphs of text at a time andto edit and correct as he goes along.

As many professional people workoutside office hours or at home,portability and the facility to print out
without secretarial assistance areinvaluable. The Microwriter acts as atrue personal word processor, offering
the benefits of word processing
without an operator.

Relieving the strain
on overworked typing pools

In large organisations,a lot of time can be lost
waiting for work (fromdictation or handwrittendrafts) to come back fromthe typing pool—particularly when there arestaff shortages or "peakperiods." And there canbe further delays if thework has to be sent backto the pool to correct
errors in the typing.
Using a Microwriter,
the writer can get his work
printed immediately athigh speed, and move on
to his other work.

Microwriter
technical specifications
Keyboard
A 5-finger keyboard (with sixth"control" key) based on a revolutionary
learning system offering effective touchtype entry from the first day of use.
Characters
Full alpha-numeric range, including
upper and lower case, punctuation
and all other normal keyboard
symbols.
Controls
The 5-finger-plus-control keyboard
gives a wide range of controls which makeit possible to read or jump forward
or backward, and offers full and instantediting facilities (review, correct,delete, insert words or evenparagraphs).

Memory8,000 character (approx. 1500 words)
Random Access Memory. Further
storage by micro-cassette.
DisplayAlpha-numeric L.E.D. with 12 character
positions. Text scrolls to left. Optional
TV display for 16-line read-outand editing.
Battery
Rechargeable batteries, charger
supplied. Automatic battery charge
warning.
Dimensions
4"wide,8!"long,2i"deep (max.).
Weight 24 oz.

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Pocket Typewriter
works on an ingenious,ew h i c h can be
When screenwriter Cy Endfield sat, punctuation marks, and enables thedown to draft the sequel to his film writer to correct typographical errors
rned in half an hour.
"Zulu," he threw away his typewriter. or rewrite as easily as can be done on
Cy Endfield who direcInstead, Endfield, of London, Eng- larger word-processing machines.
tie
1964 film " Zulu," andland, used a Micro-Writer (photo), a
The Micro-Writer's memory bankin London, has been
tiny electronic machine that he in- has a capacity to store up to eight .
on his machine forvented. The Micro-Writer is a poten- regulation-size pages of typescript. ling
last
fiveyears. It has had
tial replacement for typewriters, dic- That information can be transferred tof enthusiastic reception
tating machines and practically every a regular audio-cassette tape for addi- 1 officials in two Whiteother known method of putting tional storage while the writer contin- Idepartments.
thoughts onto paper. It is only slightly ues his manuscript. Whatever is com- llike mechanical and eleclarger than a pocket calculator and has posed on the Micro-Writer can be
I type-writers, this comjust five basic keys. Yet, Endfield's printed out at more than 500 words per
lised machine has only five
Micro-Writer can produce the Roman minute when the machine is hooked
lantly used keys on whichalphabet, as well as numbers and up to an automatic electric typewriter.
lypist places the five fingof his or her right hand.
A person can learn to use the Micro_e desired text appears on
Writer in a surprisingly short time; on•display, just as numbers
the average, it takes only half an hour
Lr on the dfSplay of a calto learn the combinations of buttons tolor But unlike in a calcu1 push to form the letters, numbers andI display each lettet is >ro! punctuation marks. The simple key|d by the operation ot a|r code.
board code is based on positioning thefingers of one hand to' simulate theshape of a character or part of it. The
letter "I," for instance, is formedby pressing the buttons under the
thumb and index finger to resemble
the vertical stroke. The writing appears on a small display screen andscrolls from right to left as morecharacters are added. With modification, the Micro-Writer could also be
used as a writing machine for theblind OL as a portable computer terminal that will transmit and receive awide variety of information over telephone lines from remote locations.

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The Microwriter System is manufactured
and distributed by Microwriter Limited, which isjointly owned by Hambro Life Assurance Limited,
Britain's largest unit-linked insurance company
and Mr. Cy Endfield, the inventor of the Microwriter.

7 Old Park Lane, London W.I.
Telephone 01-493 5633 (24 hour), 01-499 0031.