[GreenKeys] Re: Word processing with paper tape

[Don Robert House]

We have several versions of  "Selectowriters" (sp?) by SCM and 
Freiden at the museum.  You could also do this easily with a Model 43 
and its adjunct tape unit.

Don

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At 3:01 PM -0700 2/4/2003, gil smith wrote:
>Hi folks:
>
>This is from a discussion on the classic-computer email list -- does this
>sound familiar to anyone?
>
>gil
>
>
>>    Speaking of interfacing Selectrics. I was talking to my father about
>>Teletypes the other day and he told me that he had thrown out an old "word
>>processor" (my term not his). He said that it was a desk sized mechanical
>unit >that had a keyboard and mechanical printer along with a paper tape
>>punch/reader. He said that you could type in a letter and insert a pause
>any >place where you wanted to insert unique data such as a name. The unit
>would >save everything on punched paper tape. You could then feed the PT
>back into >and it would type the letter. When it got to the pause it would
>stop and let >you manually type in the name or other data and then it would
>continue and >finish the letter. Does anyone know what these thing was? I
>think he must have >gotten this after I left home because I don't remember
>ever seeing it. >Unfortunately he threw it away several years ago.
>
>
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