If you happen to have a Brother LW-350 or similar Brother Word Processor, the original Floppy that came with your system contained an accompanying Spreadsheet application.
If you lost the disc, it got erased, formatted or otherwise damaged, here is the content of mine:
https://www.biasedlogic.com/files/Brother-LW-350/LW-350-Floppy-content.zip
Thanks Marek; I was able to copy the files to a blank disk and my Brother LW-200 loaded it no problem!
Would love to find out if there are more programs for these mid-90s Brother word processors, or if anyone out there has found a way of writing new programs for them?
Seems to be very little information about these machines online – if you happen to know anything else about these would love to hear from you!
I believe there was something you could buy from Brother but I don’t remember what it was and if it wasn’t included on this floppy disk here anyway. Brother have also announced a few PC programs to support these typewriters that never materialised, so whatever I may remember may just as well be vaporware.
The LW series was the death of typewriters, they were all but useless, the last typewriter that still made sense in the office was the AX-45. Heck, I still use an AX-45 maybe not daily, but regularly, as it makes filling paper forms a breeze, something that the LW series cannot do nearly as well, not too say not at all…
Hello Marek
do you have probably service manual of LW-350?
My daisy wheel hammer is not working.
Many Thanks
Predrag
Unfortunately not, but a common thing to fail in all electronic daisy wheel Brother typewriters is a capacitor in the power supply, which makes the voltages appear right when you measure them in idle state, but they collapse once power is drawn, first thing to go is the hammer actuation… Just replace all electrolytic capacitors in the power supply with same value, same or higher voltage rating and there’s a good chance that was your problem already.
You can also test just the hammer motor, it’s a 24V DC motor, in AX-45 it’s on a separate connector going to the main board, I don’t remember how it’s for the lw350, but they are quite modular so it might be the same. Red is positive, if the motor doesn’t run, well, you need no manual to know what to replace