16 Jan
2015
16 Jan
'15
11:11 p.m.
Some time in the future I would like to build an FPGA emulation of the Pegasus, complete
with console switches, tape readers, tape punches and Creed Teleprinter. I have some of
the parts including a Creed Teleprinter and Creed Paper Tape reader, Post Office Switches
for the console. I can't find a Creed 25 high speed punch so I will have to improvise
and use one of my other punches.......
... if its ever completed I would be glad to run your program....
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Robert Jarratt
Sent: 16 January 2015 20:51
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: Paper tape standard
Perhaps not quite the same, but when I bring my Teletype Model 33, connected to a
DECSYSTEM-20 emulation, to DEC Legacy in April you can save a program on paper tape if you
like.
Regards
Rob
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mark
Wickens
Sent: 16 January 2015 20:13
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Paper tape standard
I had a dream of creating a paper tape with a program I wrote on it
for the Pegasus computer at the Science Museum. If they ever turn it
on again, or another one crops up, I might not have any excuses left...
On 16 January 2015 at 20:09, tony duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > OBA! I'm crazy for creating a paper reader/perfurator! :D This
> > is an
> old
> > dream of mine, although I have no specific computers who use it,
> > nor any specimen of perfored tape around. But I find it to be just
> > beautiful :)
>
> The reader is relatively easy to make at home, at least if you are
> happy with a photoelectric one. If you trigger off the feed holes,
> you don't need a sprocket drive, a capstan and pnch roller is fine.
> This is the sort of thing you can make in a good home workshop.
>
> The punch is a lot harder. Making the punch pins and die block, and
> then correctly grinding and hardening the former is not going to be easy.
> Mechanically the rest may not look too hard (the Facit 4070 used a
> set of rotary solenoids and linkages, one per pin), but it is still
> a major project.
>
> -tony
>