30 Mar
2010
30 Mar
'10
6:25 p.m.
On Tuesday (03/30/2010 at 05:39PM -0400), Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 3/30/10, Vincent Slyngstad <vrs at msn.com>
wrote:
If you get stuck, I can sure help. I recently restored an HP 2748B
optical reader (500 CPS) and built an RS232 interface for it so that
I can read tapes into a Linux machine... and do it quickly. It's
optical and uses only a pinch roller to grab the tape so should be
minimally "damaging" to the tapes.
I did this so that I could preserve hundreds of tapes I have for an
Altair 680b.
Chris
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Chris Elmquist
From: "Ethan Dicks" Monday, March 29,
2010 1:26 PM
I might just have to do that. I have several ways to read papertapes
directly into pre-Omnibus PDP-8s, but I'd have to think a bit on the
best way to attach something to a "modern machine" to read tapes for
uploading. I have it on an original DECUS papertape, IIRC
(http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=cctalk&a=2004-01&m=144185 - yep... there
I am talking about it ;-)
Then we just have to twist your arm to upload it somewhere :-).