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From: larry@kitty.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Brain-damaged Terminal Contest
Message-ID: <1447@kitty.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Nov-86 10:07:08 EST
Article-I.D.: kitty.1447
Posted: Sat Nov 22 10:07:08 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Nov-86 03:13:48 EST
References: <1438@kitty.UUCP> <3078@cbosgd.ATT.COM> <1727@ncoast.UUCP>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
Lines: 20
Keywords: brain-damage, video display terminals, all-time worst
Summary: A Flexowriter "computer"...
Xref: watmath net.jokes:5142 comp.terminals:24

In article <1727@ncoast.UUCP>, wb8foz@ncoast.UUCP (David Lesher) writes:
> Listen, REAL programmers use a Flexwriter, and keep all source code
> on that neat paper tape. I remember fixing errors with patches, and
> I do not mean software patches. Besides, it was easy to compare files
> --just hold them both it up to the light.

	Didn't some of the Friden Flexowriters use a paper tape code that
was NOT ASCII?
	I remember once seeing a Flexowriter "computer" (I am serious).
This consisted of a Flexowriter sitting on top of a cabinet approximately
24" wide by 24" deep by 30" high.  Inside the base cabinet was the guts
of a mechanical calculator (probably also a Friden) which had a zillion
solenoids and contact switches, in addition to a number of relays.  This
device apparently interfaced the calculator to the Flexowriter, and was
definitely a mass-produced product.

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