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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 1981
Filed:
Nov. 27, 1978
Robert C Durbeck, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Kapali P Eswaran, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Composer method and apparatus are disclosed in which human readable representations of characters are typed on the first part of a page and are thereafter typed on a second part of the page in the machine readable form. Key stroke signals generated by the typewriter keyboard are stored in a memory prior to being applied to access corresponding type ball positioning signals within a table to print the characters using a conventional type ball on the first portion of the page. Thereafter, the conventional type ball is replaced by a special type ball and the key stroke signals stored in the memory are used to access corresponding ones of a different set of type ball positioning signals within a second memory to enable the special type ball to type optically readable binary coded representations of the characters on the second part of the page. Each character is represented by a string of seven bits plus a parity bit which are typed using either a single strike of a group of eight bits on the special type ball or two different strikes using two different groups of four bits on the special type ball.