A brief note about the introduction of the Friden 6010 Computyper
business computer system in the June, 21, 1963 edition of Electronics
magazine. The 6010 was a small-scale desk-sized computing system with
plug-board and tab-rack controlled programming/sequencing, as well as
magnetic core memory for storage registers, and an electronic math unit
for performing fixed point addition, subtraction, multiplication and
division. The primary input to the machine was eight-channel punched
paper tape or ledger
cards, with human input through the keyboard of the included Friden
Flexowriter. Output could be typewritten via the Flexowriter, or to
punched tape or ledger cards via the Flexowriter's eight-channel tape punch.
Later, various peripheral devices were added to the system's options including
magnetic tape, and even a removable platter disk drive system. See photo of
system with 6018 Removable Disk Drive shown below.