> On Jun 24, 2015, at 4:25 AM, Nico de Jong <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi ED
> I only know Friden as the makers of the Flexowriter. It was something like a
> Teletype, but with many more characters. It was used heavily in the
> typesetting industry
Many more? The only Flexowriters I’ve run into are those used for Algol
programming at TU Eindhoven. They were better than many teletypes — upper and
lower case, for one, and first class reliability. But certainly nowhere enough
characters for typesetting, not unless you used markup codes for things like
italics (at which point an ASR33 would be almost as good).
Old style paper tape typesetting tended to use specialized machines. Monotype
uses oddball very wide tape, and Tape Operated Linotype uses, I think, 6 track
paper tape but the perforating keyboard machines had specialized features in
them to track the line width.
paul
