[GreenKeys] Flexowriter FIO

[Joe Clanin]

Attached is the character encoding in question. Apparently carriage return
alone utilizes the 8th bit. Hopefully someone recognizes it.

Best,

Joe

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 3:31 PM Joe Clanin <macbax1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi GreenKeyers,
>
> Admittedly, this is more of a brown-keyed question, but hopefully someone
> around here can help me out. I recently acquired a Friden Flexowriter in
> (mostly) good working order. The number of different Flexowriter
> configurations is dizzying and I am having trouble locating my particular
> model in the documentation available on bitsavers.org.
>
> The badge on my machine indicates that the model is "FIO". It appears to
> be a 7-level machine (evidently physically capable of punching and reading
> 8 level code, but never utilizing the 8th bit). My guess is that it could
> have originally been for use with DEC-FIO, but I am not sure.
>
> Any information is appreciated!
>
> Best,
>
> Joe
>
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