25 May
2012
25 May
'12
2:12 a.m.
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
Yes, I have the successor to the PE1000, relabeled by Telefunken as LSL100
(for the TR440 system). I had scanned the service manual for the earlier
model (no schematics there, but I've drawn them by hand, but I need to
find and scan them); it's on bitsavers.
More documents for the PE1000 can be found here (from Philipp):
http://bitsaving.hachti.de/box1/facit/
Especially the "Reader Manual" contains functional description and
schematics.
Fast paper
tape readers (like the Facit PE1000) have a capacitive read
Do you ahve one? I've read about them, but have never seen one or the
schematics for one... What is 'fast'? A good optical reaser will do
700-1000 cps. Is it
significantly faster?
Our model does 500 or 1000 cps. But apparently there existed some models
reading up to 2000 cps (e.g. Telefunken LSL200) or even more. But then you
really have a problem with tape feeding and winding. (At 1000 cps the tape
just shoots at least 1m horizontally out of the reader if you don't have a
fast and accurate motor winder).
Christian