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

7 Apr 1999

Ethan Dicks wrote:
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 --- 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. 
The only paper tape reader I have right now is an ASR-33 and aside from it
being buried :), I can use it to read the tapes in. The PDP-8 was bought new
by someone here in Santa Barbara, and then donated to a local school which
is where I got it. It came with an ASR-33 (which I sold years ago <sigh>), a
Tri-Data tape recorder (anyone familiar with them?), and a schematic
package. One of these days, it would be fun to fire it up (hopefully not a
pun!)