Paper Tape Fun

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 - I made a banner for my museum with it. If anyone on this list has a punch, and admits to using Windows, ha ha, I can make this available. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com