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What was the JOHNNIAC ANelex printer text encoding? #2

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The JOHNNIAC Programmers' Manual on page 42 mentions an ANelex printer:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/rand/johnniac/D-3058_Johnniac_Programmers_Manual_Jul55.pdf

The printer is visible to the the left in this picture:
https://images.computerhistory.org/revonline/images/102618693-03-01.jpg?w=600

It matches none of the Anelex printer manual scans on this page exactly, but Anelex Series 4-1000 looks like the most similar:
http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/acl/literature/chapman/p002.htm

The Instruction Manual for the Anelex Series 5 Printer System has been scanned:
http://museum.informatik.uni-kl.de/Rechner/Zuse/Allgemeine%20Peripheriegeraete/Schnelldrucker/Anelex-5/Dokumente/Instruction%20Manual%20for%20the%20ANELEX%20Series%205%20Printer%20System.pdf
As well as the scans of the schematic of the Series 5 Printer:
http://museum.informatik.uni-kl.de/Rechner/Zuse/Allgemeine%20Peripheriegeraete/Schnelldrucker/Anelex-5/Dokumente/000%20Originale/Instruction%20Manual%20for%20the%20ANELEX%20Series%205%20Printer%20System/
Oage 8 of the PDF describes the print roll character codes. Perhaps this describes the encoding sent by JOHNNIAC?

The documentation for a completely different machine also mentions an Anelex Printer and on page 11 is what looks like a character table:
https://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ict_icl/atlas/Atlas_Machine_Description_Sections_8-13_Nov64.pdf

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