9 May
2014
9 May
'14
3:06 p.m.
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I believe my Facit 4047 can do this. I've got the manuals and will scan
them in someday when I get a chance. It's a "smart" unit, with both a
reader and punch, two serial ports, and all driven by a 6800. Or maybe it
was a 6809; it's been too long since I've opened it.
Kyle
automated typesetters (automated Linotypes or
early phototypesetters).
8 bit we all know.
Do we? 8 level tape was used for all sorts of thigns (ASCII (maybe with a
parity bit), EBCDIC, binary data, etc
FWIW, Iv'e yet to see a punch or reader that does any translation on the
data. You send it 8 bits, it punchs that pattern of holes ('1'= hole),
ditto for reading. It's up to your host machine to get the right data to
the punch.