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Encyclopedia > Friden Flexowriter

The Friden Flexowriter was a teleprinter based on a 1940s IBM product that was spun off as an independent company and later sold to the Friden Corp. It could punch and read 6-bit paper tape. Unlike teletype machines that use the 5-bit Baudot code, the Flexowriter had upper and lower case characters. Because of this and the better quality printing produced by its IBM-designed typewriter mechanism, the Flexowriter could be used by itself to automate the production of office documents such as form letters.


The Flexowriter was also used as an input/output device for some early computers, such as the Librascope LGP-30 and the DEC PDP-1. It was also used instead of a key punch for off-line program and data entry.


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  • Photo and more information (http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/friden/)
  • Discussion of Flexowriter code conversion with link to code chart (http://www.science.uva.nl/faculteit/museum/X1flex.html)

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Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Friden Flexowriter (530 words)
The Friden Flexowriter, or flexowriter as on its nameplate, was a teleprinter based on a 1940s IBM product that was spun off as an independent company and later sold to the Friden Corp. It could punch and read 6-bit paper tape.
Auxiliary paper-tape readers could be attached to a Flexowriter to create an early form of "mail merge", where a long custom-created tape containing individual addresses and salutations was merged with a closed-loop form-letter and printed on continuous-form letterhead; both tapes contained embedded "control characters" to switch between readers.
The Flexowriter was also used as an input/output device for some early computers, such as the Librascope LGP-30, the CDC 160, and the DEC PDP-1.
Friden Flexowriter at AllExperts (412 words)
The Friden Flexowriter was a teleprinter based on a 1940s IBM product that was spun off as an independent company and later sold to the Friden Corp. It could punch and read 6-bit paper tape.
The Flexowriter was also used as an input/output device for some early computers, such as the Librascope LGP-30 and the DEC PDP-1.
Friden was acquired by the Singer Corporation in 1965.
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