[GreenKeys] When hobbies cross over...

[John, W9DDD]

Friden Flexowriter became popular for punching tapes for early NC 
machines.  At least where I worked way back when.

John, W9DDD

On 11/27/2019 2:32 PM, Ralph Irish wrote:
> Jeff
> 
> Friden made a typewriter with tape gear that could do what you 
> described.  A friend of mine found one and put it to
> use making Resumes for his job hunting.  Someone made a machine called 
> a, "Flex-I-Writer" or maybe  "Flex-O-Writer",
> It might have been Frieden, not sure.
> 
> I think that it had "STOP"codes one could punch into the tape so that 
> manual entry of a name or company name could
> be inserted, making each letter appear to be unique, when it might have 
> been one of fifty, going out for business purposes.
> 
> These had their own unique codes.  My friend's was an 8-Level thing, but 
> I never had a chance to play with it or make a
> test tape to run on a 33ASR, for comparison, etc.
> 
> Ralph - W8ROI
> 
> -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
> 
> *From: *"Jeff G" <jeffg at junknet.net>
> *To: *greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> *Sent: *Wednesday, November 27, 2019 3:21:32 PM
> *Subject: *[GreenKeys] When hobbies cross over...
> 
> Figured you guys and gals would enjoy this - this is an excerpt of an 
> email from a long-time vendor in my car hobby who often tells stories in 
> his emails, and I thought it was ironic that one hobby would mention 
> another:
> 
> "In the 1960s and 1970s my Dad did a lot of marketing for major 
> insurance companies. Most people would call this “junk mail.” I would 
> agree with that assumption. At one time, my Dad had 3 automatic 
> typewriters that would auto-type full-page letters for mailings. They 
> looked like they were personally typed letters to individuals. These 
> typewriters worked similar to a player piano working off a roll with 
> holes it. One person could run 3 machines at once. He also had a machine 
> (not sure what it was called) that using a fountain pen and could 
> duplicate a hand-signed signature of a person. This was pretty advanced 
> stuff for the 1970s. I worked with this equipment as well as ran 
> inserting machines back in the day."
> 
> While I'm sure there were a bunch non-teletype typewriters that fed on 
> paper tape, you never know.
> 
> Jeff aka "Bags"
> KC3GJX
> 
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