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Article #699Re: Re^2: := and Flexowriters
From: John R. Levine
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1989 00:28
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1989 00:28
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In article <1989Oct8.154002.3248@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke) writes:
>Perhaps there were different models of Flexowriter?
Yes, the character sets were not well standardized. I used to hack at a
place where we had three Flexowriters, one on a Packard Bell 250 (bet you
didn't know their current foray into computers isn't their first) one on a
Burroughs Electrodata 205, and one on an old Libratrol. The character sets
were all a little different, as I recall.
By far the most wonderful thing a Flexowriter ever did was on the Burroughs.
When you got a new reel of mag tape, you'd make the BOT marker by threading
the tape through the Flexowriter punch and typing Q repeatedly.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!uvaarpa!mcnc!decvax!ima!esegue!johnl From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Re^2: := and Flexowriters Message-ID: <1989Oct9.002828.3607@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> Date: 9 Oct 89 00:28:28 GMT References: <1989Oct3.182931.518@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <2877@psivax.UUCP> <1989Oct8.154002.3248@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) Followup-To: alt.flame Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA Lines: 16