papertape repair tape or kit wanted

Back inthe early 70's one of my jobs was to repair and set up 4K core stores for ICT 4100 systems. The company I worked for were an off shoot of the big boat builders Camper & Nicholsons. It was an all paper tape system (no cards). There were two readers, two 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 painted a sort of PDP 8 Bezel white. To test the repaired core stores I ran an Algol program that did the handicapping for sailing boats. First you loaded the program (a reel of paper tape about three inches across.) I had a tape width wide perspex box with slots to put a pin through to locate the tape. . There was one switch to load and go. Centre was off, up loaded the tape to the start in the reader and down set it off. Boy was it quick! The tape shot through the reader and into a bin. Tape get tangled? Nope never did. At this point the printer would say Data? Of course you did not load the data tape. First you rewound the program tape so as not mix them up in the bin. My favorite trick was to grab the end of the tape before it got to the bin. The rewinder was just like a film rewinder. Next up load the data tape and then wait about 10-15 mins for the output to appear on the printer. Am I going to run a paper tape system on my 8/e Hell yes!! Rod On 30/11/2015 09:42, Dave Wade wrote: