PDP8 Paper Tape - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Apr 1999

--- Marvin &lt;marvin(a)rain.org&gt; wrote:
...

 I was rummaging around the back bedroom last night and found (again) three
 boxes of paper tapes labeled "262.1-S PDP-8 Printer Driver Source",
 "265.1-OB PDP-8 printer Diagnostic Object 1 of 3", and the other 2 boxes. I
 have no idea what printer this might be used with. It came with the PDP-8L I
 acquired many years ago. These tapes are rolled black tape. Anyone know what
 these might be? 
Do you have any way of reading the tapes in?  One way to tell is by reading
the comments.  Another way is by checking the IOT's used for the printer I/O.

I myself cannot tell what printer those work with from the numeric portion of
the title, but I can say that just for parallel printers, OMNIBUS -8's
supported
the LA180, the LQP01 and LQP02.  Common serial printers were the older members
of the DECWriter line (e.g., LA-36, probably not the LA-120).  If that source
is for an older, non-OMNIBUS model, I wouldn't have a clue as to what model of
printer it would want to talk to.  I think only the LA-36 was available in
current-loop configuration (excepting, of course, real TTY's).

Do you have a way of reading in the tape?  

-ethan

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