13 Jan
2005
13 Jan
'05
8:54 a.m.
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 14:25, Paul Koning wrote:
Paper tape readers can go much faster (I've seen
2000 cps) but those
are optical readers, so the job is far easier.
At this stage I have to jump in with an impressive 5000cps example
(albeit 5bit) from 1944; of course it is:
http://www.picotech.com/applications/colossus.html
(This is a nice page on the optical reader)
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Lawrence Wilkinson lawrence(a)ljw.me.uk
The IBM 360/30 page http://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360