[GreenKeys] dunno what this subject should be

[Robert McConnell]

At 2/4/03 03:01 PM -0700, 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.

Sounds like the Friden Flexowriter I had about 25 years ago. There was a 
pause code you could put onto the tape that stopped the reader until you 
hit the tape key again. I punched my resume on that machine and sent out 
several dozen customized copies one year. I never did find a schematic for 
the computer interface connector. IIRC, I had to throw it out due to lack 
of space after our youngest son was born in '81. It was a little rusty on 
the bottom, but still worked.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP