21 May
2013
21 May
'13
9:51 a.m.
Folks,
Recently we were talking about a business automation device that used paper tape for
storage; typically someone would enter data like an address on paper tape, then it would
read the paper tape back through to print the address on an envelope for billing. It was a
specific device/name and it was very 60s/"Mad Men" in appearance. I can't
remember the name. Someone found one in an attic in MN or something.
Thanks!
21 May
21 May
10:16 a.m.
Recently we were talking about a business automation
device that used paper tape for storage; typically someone would enter data like an
address on paper tape, then it would read the paper tape back through to print the address
on an envelope for billing. It was a specific device/name and it was very 60s/"Mad
Men" in appearance. I can't remember the name. Someone found one in an attic in
MN or something.
The IBM 870 can do this (and a lot more), but I do not think this is
what we were talking about.
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Will
10:27 a.m.
honeywell?
heathkit?
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:16 AM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com>wrote:
Recently we
were talking about a business automation device that used
paper tape for storage;
typically someone would enter data like an address
on paper tape, then it would read the paper tape back through to print the
address on an envelope for billing. It was a specific device/name and it
was very 60s/"Mad Men" in appearance. I can't remember the name. Someone
found one in an attic in MN or something.
The IBM 870 can do this (and a lot more), but I do not think this is
what we were talking about.
--
Will
4:59 p.m.
On 21/05/2013 15:16, William Donzelli wrote:
Flexowriter with multiple punchs? When I worked at Refuge Insurance in
Manchester, England we used them to both type "posh" policy documents
and at the same time the data typed was captured on to paper tape. These
were the converted to Magnetic tape via a converted Honeywell Key to
Tape machine. We also had a Honeywell Key to Disk machine which despite
its name still used magnetic tape to transfer its data to the
"mainfame" a Honeywell H3200 with 1200BPI NRZI high speed tape drives.
The drives were amazing things but as we had 4 Million "industrial
Branch" life policies spread over around 14 reels of tape well worth the
extra cost.
We did however have one nasty event, when testing on the standby
generator all went well until job end when the tapes went into re-wind.
As the fourth drive started to rewind the the generator stalled as it
couldn't handle the load. There was a big bang and our small Scotish CE,
Jim muttered some words that his namesake on Startrek could never use on
TV. Any way the fix was not to get a bigger generator. We simply took
the tapes off-line at End of Job and then manually re-wound the tapes
one at a time....
Dave
G4UGM
Recently we
were talking about a business automation device that used paper tape for storage;
typically someone would enter data like an address on paper tape, then it would read the
paper tape back through to print the address on an envelope for billing. It was a specific
device/name and it was very 60s/"Mad Men" in appearance. I can't remember
the name. Someone found one in an attic in MN or something.
The IBM 870 can do this
(and a lot more), but I do not think this is
what we were talking about.
--
Will
6:01 p.m.
On May 21, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Dave <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:
Flexowriter with multiple punchs? When I worked at
Refuge Insurance in Manchester, England we used them to both type "posh" policy
documents and at the same time the data
*ding* That's it. I couldn't remember the name of it. There were some postings a
few months ago about people who rescued one and I read up on it, but blanked on the name.
I think it would be a hoot to set one up in as an educational/museum to show how paper
tape worked.
10:20 a.m.
On Tue, 21 May 2013, Jonathan Katz wrote:
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 09:51:58 -0400
From: Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com>
Reply-To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Subject: Dumb Question
Folks,
Recently we were talking about a business automation device that used paper
tape for storage; typically someone would enter data like an address on
paper tape, then it would read the paper tape back through to print the
address on an envelope for billing. It was a specific device/name and it was
very 60s/"Mad Men" in appearance. I can't remember the name. Someone found
one in an attic in MN or something.
Thanks!
Flexowriter with Selectdata paper tape option?
Peter Wallace
7 p.m.
In article <70F95E58-383B-454F-9C8B-67BA0D89BE32 at jonworld.com>,
Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com> writes:
was very 60s/"Mad Men" in appearance. I
can't remember the name. Someone
found one in an attic in MN or something.
I believe you're talking about the Flexowriter with Selectadata.
Might look something like this:
<http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102692751>
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