The Newmanry History

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The tapes produced are unsuitable for Colossus and need to be copied.

Junior prints from a tape. It consists of a tape-reader, a steckerboard,

By steckering any character can be made to print any other character. Any

The three upper rows of jacks carry the output from the reader.

The three lower rows carry the input to the typewriter.

Steckering is effected by plug cords.

Letters not steckered are printed normally (as Tunny letters, e.g. 5 as 5

Different letters to be printed alike are plugged into a common jack and

To common a large group of letters a Ring Common can be used.

The reader output has two jacks for each letter: a mere shorting plug in the

In a jack carrying input to the typewriter FS means literally figure shift;

This has three switches : "start"; "stop" and "insert". "Insert" causes the

The typewriter can be set to print in any width up to 60.


Letters can be inserted by using the keyboard.

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