Another weird paper tape

Bill Degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Mon Dec 24 09:22:12 CST 2018


On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 6:24 PM Kyle Owen via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> I have another paper tape...this time, it's 7-channel.
>
> I dumped it and found that it has very, very little data on it.
>
> Tape image here:
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kCiSiNuPvAPzBG0XCqBJiBoPhjmyvU21
>
> Here's some of the first of the tape.
>
> 0000000 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> *
> 0000380 a0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> 0000390 80 80 a0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> 00003a0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> *
> 00003d0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 a0 80 80 80 80 80
> 00003e0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> *
> 0000430 80 80 80 80 88 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> 0000440 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> *
> 0000ca0 80 80 80 80 81 81 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> 0000cb0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> *
> 00010d0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 81 81 80 80
> 00010e0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> *
> 0001100 81 81 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> 0001110 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> 0001120 80 80 80 80 81 81 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> 0001130 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> 0001140 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 81 81 80 80 80 80 80 80
> 0001150 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
> 0001160 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 81 81 80 80
> 0001170 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>
> The tape is dated 22 October 1958.
>
> Any ideas what this could have been used for?
>
> The 8th channel is set since I read this on an 8-channel reader.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kyle
>

nuthin'  ... but it's pre-ascii and pre motorola format.  Flexowriter
stuff?


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