Reading PDP-8 paper tapes - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Jul 2003

On Jul 1, 11:43, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
...
  >From: "Peter Turnbull"
&lt;pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com&gt;
 >
 >Does anyone -- preferably in the UK -- have a paper tape reader that
 >could be hooked up to a modern machine (eg a laptop) to read the tapes
...
  >in the museum, and which they'd be willing to
lend? 
...
   I don't live close enough but it isn't too
hard to
 connect, even a parallel paper tape reader. I have
 one that does folded paper tape that I connected to
 my lap top's parallel printer port.
 Dwight 
Indeed.  Anything like that would be fine.  Just please don't suggest a
Teletype ASR33; I have one anyway.  Besides, I'd not consider it very
portable even though mine has casters.  It's also slow, sprocket-fed,
and being 20mA current loop and 110 baud, needs additional intefacing.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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						University of York