13 Jun
2024
13 Jun
'24
6:11 a.m.
could early rolls have been on graphite or metal instead of cardboard? Or a metal
reusable core with a hollow cardboard tube holding the paper, like paper towels?
<pre>--Carey</pre>
On 06/13/2024 12:45 AM CDT Fritz Mueller via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 6/12/2024 8:28 PM, mark audacity romberg via
cctalk wrote:
Yeah, something’s missing here, teletype paper is for sure not good as a dummy load.
<shrug>
Sounded pretty strange to me, but the commenter is a fairly accomplished person in the
accelerator electronics and detector division, and the audience (on a general channel) was
the entire staff of the lab. So I assume there was *something* to the tale...
I wonder what might be missing or lost in translation down the years? I figure if
anybody had heard of such a thing, it might be some of this lot :-)
--FritzM.