PDP-8/E Paper Tapes from ECRM

From: Hans B Pufal <hansp_at_aconit.org>
Date: Wed Sep 25 04:19:01 2002

Derek Peschel wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:49:09PM -0400, Christopher McNabb wrote:

>>Does anyone know who ECRM is/was, and what kind of machine/system these
>>tapes might have been used with?

> I don't know anything about ECRM but the titles together suggest add-on
> typesetting or page layout hardware. "Dictionary" likely refers to
> hyphenations rather than spelling correction.

As Derek says, it appears that this was some typesetting system. A quick
look on Google for ECRM throws up a few pages relating to typesetting
systems. I did not dig much deeper but at first glance it would appear
that ECRM is still around and still in that business (see www.ecrm.com).

   -- hbp
Received on Wed Sep 25 2002 - 04:19:01 BST