NOTE: I will pay a generous price for a few inches of papertape repair tape if anyone has any! I am located in Landenberg, PA USA....Contact me privately if you can help. -- Bill

On 11/29/2015 11:32 PM, simon wrote: We repaired tape with contact glue and rubout tape punched on an ASR33. I guess it would depend on whether you were repairing paper, fiber or mylar material though whether the adhesive would work or not. I have a box of the repair material somewhere, but I suspect the adhesive would be useless with the material. Better to manufacture your own with Williams suggestion, or a simpler one like mine. BTW, we only used this method with tapes to be read on an ASR33. We didn't have high speed machines. You can use scotch tape sometimes on units with optical readers, and dupe the tape from what you read if you need to have a copy w/o a break in it. thanks Jim

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:

Hi Tony Did you say Data Dynamics? I certainly knew them. I used to sell them LA36 print mechs. It was run by two old guys called Tindale and Stabler. The factory was in Hayes and I used to drive there from the DEC office in Ealing via Bombay (sorry I mean Southall). Their stuff was very nice and the factory was always very tidy. Their KSR using the LA36 print mechanics and fitted with a reader/punch was really smooth in operation. Now that would really be a find. Rod Smallwood On 30/11/2015 12:22, tony duell wrote:

Keston Common? There's one near Bromley. Oh well back to latest project - a TU58. Power OK and BOB shows P2/DB25 is live so TXD On 30/11/15 16:44, tony duell wrote:

The official splicing tape I've seen is in little squares with all holes punched (probably covers 9 or 10 characters on the tape. I may still have some somewhere, but it was trasparent tape so the crack between the ends of the 2 bits of paper tape you were joining would confuse most optical treaders. In the end I would run out a bit of all-holes tape (the Facit 4070 punch I use has a switch for this!), cut off a bit and stick that over the join using paper glue (a Prit Stick or equivalent works OK for splices that don't have to last too long) -tony