30 Nov
2015
30 Nov
'15
4:22 a.m.
punches and two keyboardless golfball typewriters. I
have forgotten
exactly what types they were. I think the punch said something like
BPRE on it and the readers did not match the rest of the system being
Probably BRPE (normally pronounced 'Burpee') which is a high speed
(something like 110 characters/second) paper tape punch from
Teletype.
IIRC the Teletype ones were in a grey all-metal cabinet with a lift-up
lid. There was also a Data Dynamics version in a cabinet with a smoked
perspex door and with a couple of pygmy light bulbs under the chad box
to illuminate the front. That looks pretty but doesn't change the perfomance...
-tony