[GreenKeys] Flexowriter 01

[Simon Claessen]

Thanks for the links. bitsavers had a good collection of manuals.

the machine turned out to be a wide carriage model SPD with Bull coding. 
it is in decent shape. ony one key has some wear: the read tape key. :-) 
reading a tape is fine, punching goes wrong after the first key. but 
just now did i learn about a special keypress to do after setting up 
punching, so I'l try that first befor taking it apart.

It is only missing its papertape holder on the back (if a 
papertape/edgecard model ever had one) But boy what a heavy beast!

I was quite amazed to find out it was build not far from my home in 
Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Oh and btw. six bit versions were used for newspaper linotype machines. 
we have a siemens T106 in six-bit in our collection. it has all kinds of 
markup keys not used in any other system.

On 16/03/13 04:17, John Nagle wrote:
> On 3/15/2013 5:15 PM, greenkeys-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 20:32:08 +0100
>> From: Simon Claessen <simski at dds.nl>
>> To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Flexowriter 01
>> Message-ID: <51437738.6000403 at dds.nl>
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>> actually it are not the regular cards, its just that it has
>> approximately the same size and just punches the papertape path onto one
>> side.
>
> Those are called "edge cards".  The idea was that you could have a
> manual card file of address cards, and use them to address letters.
>
> If you want a Flexowriter manual, see
>
> http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/s_flex.html
> (has a maintenance manual)
>
> and
>
> http://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_fridenFlexManual1959_21721198/Flexowriter_SFD_Technical_Manual_1959#page/n11/mode/2up
> (a user manual)
>
> There are both six-bit and eight-bit variants.  8-bit is a pre-ASCII
> code; the codes sort of match, but there are shift codes like Baudot.
> Six-bit is unique to Flexowriters.
>
>
> 				John Nagle
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-- 
Met vriendelijke Groet,

Simon Claessen
drukknop.nl