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by drdaeman 4734 days ago
According to various news sources, they're buying Triumph-Adler Twen 180 and Olympia Comfort typewriters. Don't know about the former, but the latter seems to be a full-fledged computer, even having an option of a disk drive.

Certainly, the architecture must be ranges of magnitude simpler, compared to modern desktop computers, but still you won't know what's really implemented inside the CPU die disassembling the device and reverse-engineering all significant chips using scanning electron microscope.