It's my letter-quality (none of that dot-matrix garbage) NEC Spinwriter 2050 printer. I have several font wheels for it, though not the Futura one I covet. One of these days I need to set it up along with one of my Model M keyboards as a serial line terminal.
This (with a usb-parallel adaptor) is a USB Teletypewriter: http://www.wabdo.com/fred/printernet/ (it's printing this thread: http://metatalk.metafilter.com/16190/Print-Stylesheet-for-Me...)
It's my letter-quality (none of that dot-matrix garbage) NEC Spinwriter 2050 printer. I have several font wheels for it, though not the Futura one I covet. One of these days I need to set it up along with one of my Model M keyboards as a serial line terminal.