> On Mar 23, 2018, at 1:43 PM, Kyle Owen via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Thank you for the compliments! I'm looking forward to getting it going.
>
> Any idea what the model (FIO) indicates?
I don't know that specific designation and I can't find my reference. But I do
know that Friden would make custom variations of the Flexowriter, for example
with different characters on the type bars and other features.
An example is the Flexowriters used at labs and universities (MC and THE, for
example) in Holland for ALGOL programming. Those had _ and | characters that
did not advance the carriage, for making keywords (underlined words) and
characters like not-equal. They also had a "stop on semicolon" feature on the
tape duplication mechanism, so you could edit your programs by copying tape and
stopping on a statement boundary. I saw that model code a few months ago.
paul
