Maybe interesting toy in junk shop... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Jul 2016

I gave a kids teletter sort of tape sender receiver. There are two to b a kit.. what did
they want for it we could use for an off site display. ?Ed Sharpe ARCHIVIST For smecc

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-------- Original message --------
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> 
Date: 7/2/2016  8:08 PM  (GMT-07:00) 
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
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Subject: Re: Maybe interesting toy in junk shop... 

On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
...
  I was poking around a junk shop that I visit from
time
 to time and I saw a toy.? It didn't really strike me as
 that interesting when I saw it but I've been wondering
 about it since I left the place this morning.? The
 thing was mostly red plastic with a cardboard bottom.? It
 had a two-prong AC cord and a four prong "old fashioned"
 telephone jack.? It had two big buttons and a spool of
 paper tape mounted on the front.? The tape was about 1/4
 inch wide.? I call it a toy because it had that sort of
 feel about it.? It was not clearly labeled as such.? It
 was also styled in a way that suggested late 1960s to me.
 The whole thing was the size of a small shoe box.? I
 can't find anything like it in google searches.? I wonder
 if it might have some early modem like device in it.? Does
 this description "ring a bell" with anyone? 
an auto-dialer for an alarm system?

Was it punched tape (used as ROM)?
or blank tape with some sort of marker?