22 Jun
2025
22 Jun
'25
2:26 a.m.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM Frank Leonhardt via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
There was a version of the Silent 700 terminal which had a unit on top
containing 2 digital cassette drives [1]. These 'replaced' the paper
tape punch and reader of other ASR terminals, I think you could save
data from either the line or keyboard onto a caseette (equivelent of
punching paper tape), copy from one to the other editing as you go and
send the data from cassette to the line or printer (equvalent of
reading a paper tape).
[1] Same dimensions as a normal audio Compact Cassette but with a
different grade of tape (higher coercivity?). You can identify the
cassettes by the slightly off-centre notch in the rear edge.
-tony
Lack of paper tape is was why I was asking about
a replacement.
The same goes for TTY replacement.
Which is why I suggested cassette tape as the closest practical
contemporary equivalent :-)