1 Feb
2003
1 Feb
'03
12:28 a.m.
Emulate the tape reader.
Vintage paper tapes are usually made from quite low quality paper and
degrade with use. Mylar tapes
are much better, but can still be dammaged (if you try).
So unless you also have a punch to dumplicate your tapes, then its
really much better to transfer the tapes
into some modern digital format.
If your PDP-8 has a tape reader interface, its usually trival to build a
paper tape reader emulator and connect
it to your machine.
Will Jennings wrote:
I think Ethan's points are excellent; in fact, the
main reason I had
suggest an SSD in the first place was because the real drives used
with the 8/i were not very large (by modern standards). I'd like to
add that a major reason for my desire for such a beast is the fact
that I have absolutely no peripherals for my 8/i, nor do I have the
required boards to control them if I did have them. Heck, I don't even
currently have a complete machine, but I'm working on it. I'll
hopefully soon have a list of needed boards I can post to the list...
Anyone have any REAL manuals for the thing that they'd part with? Or a
paper tape reader? Please? *begs*
Will J