4 Mar
2009
4 Mar
'09
4:36 p.m.
The thread concerning paper tape is timely for a different reason: A
law enforcement officer on another list that I track is seeking a sample
of paper tape to use as an example of vintage computer media for a law
enforcement forensics class that he teaches. Could one of the listers
here offer up a short roll of tape for posterity?.... He's trying to
buy it online without success (and definitely doesn't need a case of
it). Hopefully there's a scratch run or two laying around that someone
could spare...
S Shumaker
M H Stein wrote:
If you can't arrange a group buy and you don't
mind white/unprinted
then I could send you a couple of rolls; I don't see myself doing
anything with my PPT perfs and readers any time soon - think of
it: loading Vista from PPT... ;-)
Email off-list if interested.
mike
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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:47:09 +0100
From: Henk Gooijen <henk.gooijen at hotmail.com>
Subject: 1" paper tape buy ?
Hi all,
I was searching for a company that sells 1" unoiled paper tape, here
in The Netherlands. No luck. After googling and many pages, I found
a company in the USA: http://www.wncsupply.com/paper-tape-rolls.html
I would like to buy one or two rolls of 1000 ft, order# 0400A,
R-V-PU471 Unoiled / Printed Top Arrow yellowish color, but it comes
in either a package of 28 rolls (1) and weighs 40 lbs, or in a quart
package, 7 rolls, still a weight of 10 lbs. The 7 rolls package costs
$80. That OK, but the shipping costs would make it quite expensive.
My question is simple.
Are there people on this list who also want to buy some rolls of 1"
nice looking yellow paper tape? I would take 2 (or 3) rolls.
Hint: Get a paper tape reader from an old CNC machine from eBay.
(I bought one for $30 and another for $79 two weeks ago). You can
interface such a reader to a computer, in my case the SBC6120 !
Think of it ... booting the SBC6120 from a paper tape. Is that cool?
The site also sells nice reels (http://www.wncsupply.com/reels.html).
I wanted to buy the 4" blue ones, but again shipping costs, aarggghh.
However, a nice lady from the company emailed me that she is looking
into the shipping costs, as the costs quoted on their site is a bit
high.
I hope to hear from one or two people also looking for a few paper
tape rolls ... Please contact me off list.
Links to other companies that sell 1" paper tape are also welcome!
Thanks,
- Henk, PA8PDP