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Default Cool boat & travel computer
Wayne.B wrote:

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:12:14 -0400, wrote:


What I listed is only the tip of the iceberg. I even have stuff such
as a tape punch, and a Linotronic photo-typesetter with 8.5 inch
floppy drives in it. In a previous life, I ran a bunch of newspapers.


Burroughs Flexowriter ?

I wrote my first computer program on one of those in the fall of 1967.
If you were really good you could edit with scissors, scotch tape and
a hole punch, otherwise you re-keyed everything.



Converted IBM Selectric - seven solonoids that pulled the bales.
Way cool printer - with selectable fonts (balls).


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Richard

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