18 Dec
2001
18 Dec
'01
2:11 a.m.
Loboyko Steve wrote:
I recently acquired (out of desperation) a DSI paper
tape punch/reader on ePay (at a reasonable price, but
not guaranteed to work). I cleaned it up, oiled it
here and there, and after puzzling out the RS-232, got
it running punching Mylar fine. To test it, I wrote a
Windows program to test it out with; the program lets
you type in a phrase, looks up the ASCII, and prints
the letters out on the tape in a 7x5 matrix format,
upper and lower case. I'm pretty sure that there were
programs that ran on mainframes to do this sort of
thing. Useless, but kind of fun
Not so useless. I've seen that technique used to label tapes. A little
more professional than a handscrawled name.
-- hbp