Friden 5610 Computyper
date: label: date made
content: 1970 -1978
notes: label: Description
content: This Friden 5610 Computyper was manufactured by the Friden Division of the Singer Company around 1969. This machine is actually two-in-one, the Friden 5610 Computyper and the 2205 Flexowriter. The Flexowriter was also sold apart from the Friden 5610 as a teleprinter. The Flexowriter consists of an electric typewriter with paper tape reader and punch mechanism. The Flexowriter would produce a coded data tape that could be read by the Computyper to automate various business activities. The Computyper was marketed as a data processor for business use, automatically producing invoices, sales totals, product sales analysis, taxes, costs, profits, and special charges.
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Typewriters
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content: Computers & Business Machines
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0823.01
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0823.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0823
objectType: label: Object Name
content: typewriter system, friden
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 58 1/2 in x 27 in; 91.44 cm x 148.59 cm x 68.58 cm