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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
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Subject: Re: Re^2: := and Flexowriters
Message-ID: <1989Oct9.002828.3607@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 9 Oct 89 00:28:28 GMT
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In article <1989Oct8.154002.3248@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke) writes:
>Perhaps there were different models of Flexowriter?

Yes, the character sets were not well standardized.  I used to hack at a
place where we had three Flexowriters, one on a Packard Bell 250 (bet you
didn't know their current foray into computers isn't their first) one on a
Burroughs Electrodata 205, and one on an old Libratrol.  The character sets
were all a little different, as I recall.

By far the most wonderful thing a Flexowriter ever did was on the Burroughs.
When you got a new reel of mag tape, you'd make the BOT marker by threading
the tape through the Flexowriter punch and typing Q repeatedly.
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