Talk:Friden Flexowriter

another reader[edit]

This "another reader" guy... Who is it? 90.230.101.206 (talk) 11:58, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

good question. I sure don't know, so I rewrote that bit. -- Akb4 (talk) 06:50, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Blodgett[edit]

An editor added the following:

(Commentary added by a former employee, who joined Friden in Rochester shortly before Edward Blodgett was hospitalized: Several times, employees who had been there for some time related that Mr. Blodgett had said, more than once, "Electronics is a [dirty] word, and I don't want to hear it spoken in my presence." (Not sure about "dirty", but it was derogatory while usable in polite society). Around that time, a few engineers were working on a partly-electronic Flexowriter based on a digital bus, but it was under-funded and used heartbreakingly-unreliable connectors.

In defense of Edward Blodgett, this editor is fairly sure that he designed the Justowriter, an ingenious system, and probably made other significant technical contributions as well. Apparently, he was quite capable in the electromechanical field.)

This is pretty clearly OR and should be deleted from the article, so I'm archiving it here for reference purposes. -- Akb4 (talk) 06:50, 10 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I used one in 1965[edit]

I was a young Naval officer, ready to leave the service in early 1965. I discovered a Flexowriter at some sort of office on a nearby Naval base, and used it to type resumes. It worked VERY well in that application, and I could crank out typed resumes pretty quickly. As I remember, I made a tape that would pause the machine at appropriate places so I could enter custom information by hand. Lou Sander (talk) 23:31, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]