If you want to talk to a typewriter using something other than your fingers on the keys, you could do a lot worse than to pick up a specimen featuring a Centronics parallel port. That’s what happened to [mlupo], who came across an old Swintec 1146 CMP and decided to hack it into an art installation.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2023/12/14/when-is-a-typewriter-a-printer-when-it-has-a-parallel-port/