[GreenKeys] Flexowriter Info

Wed, 24 Apr 2002 21:10:15 -0400

http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/friden/

The link above is something I found doing a search on Google. The
Flexowriter was used as the terminal for the PDP-1, at MIT in the '60s.
I wonder if anyone has a working one someplace.

At 08:23 PM 4/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>The following came from a visitor to my web site.  I have no information 
>about the Flexowriter for this gent; perhaps someone on this list can help 
>him.  The "cement mixer" he refers to in his note is my Model 12, and my 
>telegraph items can be viewed at http://www.pce.net/dalderdi/telegrph.htm
>
>Also, a reminder to those in the Western New York state area, this weekend 
>is the spring outing of my working telegraph display.  Venue is the Keenan 
>Arena, 195 Beattie Ave, Lockport, NY.  Show times are 10-5 Saturday 4/27, 
>and 10-4 Sunday 4/28.  The show is the 2002 Railroad Showcase and it's a 
>favorite of RR buffs of all kinds -- modelers, prototypers, etc.  Alas, I 
>will have no teletypes on display, but I will have a working telegraph 
>line and a crank phone line with RR-type field phones going.  (just got 
>done twisting the pairs for that!)  Look for the telegraph poles with the 
>birds on them!
>
>Thanks es 73,
>
>Doug, KA2WFT
>- - - - - - - - -
>Subject: Message from Internet
>Date:    24-Apr-02 at 13:23
>From:    Arthur H Sanders, INTERNET:[email protected]

>TO: INTERNET:[email protected]
>
>
>
>Doug--(I hope I have the right connection)
>   Your collection of the teletypers is amazing, and I only wish I were
>closer and younger. I am deep into research of the electro-mechanical
>genius types that developed, constructed, and improved mechanical
>typewriters similar to the FLEXOWRITER. This could be called the final
>piece, because it went as far as they could--fortunately electronics came
>in soon after. But can you tell me if your teletypers use the same type
>of translaters as these early I B M monsters,with the notched plates
>which allow for a key to be selected/? Do you have close-up photos of
>your "cement-mixer"--fantastic? Have you ever seen a technicians repair
>manual for teletyper, or Flexowriter, or even a Robotyper?Thanks--
>
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