[GreenKeys] When hobbies cross over...

[Ralph Irish]

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 

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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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