A braille machine? Nope. A wide, ribbonless Blickensderfer? I think the paching would have been more thorough, so no. A cheque writer? Could be for those w i d e cheques. That’s me out of ideas…
My guess is either a Varityper, Underwood 5ish, or a small incubator you’ve bought in order to keep warm a number of prematurely born guinea pigs you recently saved from the jaws of a viscous neighbourhood dog.
nats laptaps 
a Selectric!
Keep guessing! ;)
And probably a large wide carriage Selectric at that.
(Or a diminutive Corona 3 that is just very very well packed for shipping ;)
You’re right about the large wise carriage, but it’s not an electric.
Nahhhhh, not a Corona 3 ;)
As I know what this is, it would be unfair for me to comment. But it is exciting!
The Rubix cube might be an easier riddle to solve (actually, no, I’d struggle with that too)!
Hahaha, that cube’s taken me forever to solve! I’m cheating though. Wiki’ed the algorithm.
So, the hints are: 1. it’s wide carriage, 2. it’s not electric and 3. Scott knows what it is. Hmmmzz… still too difficult for me to solve.
I think more hints are in order!
Hint 4: it does not have ribbon functionality.
Hmm just to be sure; it does have typing functionality, right?
Yes it does, but in a rather strange way.
Obviously it’s a wide-carriage Yost.
Guess again! :p
A braille machine? Nope. A wide, ribbonless Blickensderfer? I think the paching would have been more thorough, so no. A cheque writer? Could be for those w i d e cheques. That’s me out of ideas…
Nope time three, any more guesses? :3
My guess is either a Varityper, Underwood 5ish, or a small incubator you’ve bought in order to keep warm a number of prematurely born guinea pigs you recently saved from the jaws of a viscous neighbourhood dog.
Nope and nope… And maybe! Guinea pigs are pruddy cute. :3
Is it an asian-language machine?
Yes! :D