21 May
2012
21 May
'12
2:41 p.m.
On 21/05/2012 22:08, dwight elvey wrote:
Mine is a commercial unit that sends data via the serial port, and yes
decayed rubber was a minor issue. Biggest challenge was rewinding
spooled tape. I eventually made a winder out of a fishing/angling reel
bought from a ?1 shop for a ?1, (I guess around $1.50) . I used the top
From: dave.g4ugm at gmail.com
On 21/05/2012 19:21, Dave McGuire wrote:
I am in the UK but I have two optical tape readers, and will happily
read tape in reasonable quantities from any one in the UK. I can also
copy if required.
But the question was scanned images which might be available after the
tape has degraded and can't be read.
Dave
Hi I have a high speed reader to but I've had troubleswith rubber bands.
They leave gunk on the tapes andlayers stick together. On a high speed reader, itrips the
tape before one has a chance to stop it. Mine is a parallel one and I just connected it to
theprinter port ( guess that dates my laptop ). A simpleprogram reads the data and puts it
into files. On making a reader, the ideas of using a pile ofphotodiodes to read a punch
card doesn't makemuch sense. It might be better to have a LED lightat each hole
position of a column and a single photodiode.One could then just sequntially drive the
lightsand detect it with just one photodiode.One might need to aim each light at the
diode.As with Dave, if someone has fan fold paper tape toarchive, I could do an reasonable
amount. I'min San Jose, Ca, USA.I'm not setup to handle spooled tape safely.Dwight
from a small spray bottle as the spindle and a blank CD
as the back plate.