What Is It?

I think it looks like a typewriter. The things at the top look like the things attached to the keys. And then it has a bell for the carriage return.

Looks like a Braille (sp) printer to me.

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Yeah, it look like a typewriter-type device, but it seems to be the wrong overall shape for a typewriter.

Maybe it's the guts of a teletype machine - or an old cardpunch machine?

It's a punch for making player piano rolls.

Or, a "hanging chad" machine.

no... Floridians make hanging chads.

So there's no truth in the rumour that it is a KrisDel™ device for sending out automatic personal messaging for organising the next CR4 minibus trip? What a shame.

Not enough valves, tuning caps or semaphore flags for that. And nowhere to put the nuts and feathers on string...

Yum!

Just what we need to get that warm and fuzzy feeling.

Nah. No help needed here.

PWSlack :

That is an EF87 and I beleive it came from

Siegfried Neumann, Germany - Tube collection.

http://www.radiomuseum.org/tubecollection/siegfried_neumann~4.html

I too was thinking typewriter type thingy. I was thinking either an early electric typewriter, with the keys removed, or maybe a fax machine?

Maybe a facts machine for generating random facts.
It only exists because it generated the fact that it exists, it's an antecedant of the infinite improbability drive.
Del

Did you know that 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot?

It was supposed to be the wife's repaired sewing machine. It works better than ever after the few modifications made.

No missing parts (and even a few extras).

Looks like the inside of a electric typewriter or printer, fax machine combo.

It's an Enigma.

PMSL!!!

Shirley there's not enough wheels?

[GA for the joke: when are Admin going to add "Funny" to OT and GA...]

I would have said either a printer of some type, or perhaps a teletype

How about an old electric cash register without the outer cover as good a guess as any

Looks like an early version of an impact printer.

Where's Solar Eagle with the definitive answer?

It is the core element in the Turbo Encabulator.

It looks like what we used to call a golf-ball typewriter

Cheers

Linotype or competitor?

Prototype Meccano press?

Boo, you found it

A teletype machine.....

It is something that has been assimilated by the Borg

Looks like a teletype printer that is outside of its housing. We used to use a lot of those in the Navy, I'm not saying that is what this is but it looks very similar.

Just a guess but an older model cash register.