Another weird paper tape

[Bill Degnan]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 10:22 AM Bill Degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 6:24 PM Kyle Owen via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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>> I have another paper tape...this time, it's 7-channel.
>>
>> I dumped it and found that it has very, very little data on it.
>>
>> Tape image here:
>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kCiSiNuPvAPzBG0XCqBJiBoPhjmyvU21
>>
>> Here's some of the first of the tape.
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>> 0000000 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> *
>> 0000380 a0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> 0000390 80 80 a0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> 00003a0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> *
>> 00003d0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 a0 80 80 80 80 80
>> 00003e0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> *
>> 0000430 80 80 80 80 88 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> 0000440 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> *
>> 0000ca0 80 80 80 80 81 81 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> 0000cb0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> *
>> 00010d0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 81 81 80 80
>> 00010e0 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> *
>> 0001100 81 81 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> 0001110 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> 0001120 80 80 80 80 81 81 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> 0001130 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> 0001140 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 81 81 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> 0001150 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
>> 0001160 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 81 81 80 80
>> 0001170 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
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>> The tape is dated 22 October 1958.
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>> Any ideas what this could have been used for?
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>> The 8th channel is set since I read this on an 8-channel reader.
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kyle
>>
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> nuthin'  ... but it's pre-ascii and pre motorola format.  Flexowriter
> stuff?
>

replying to myself, oops I see Flexowriter was already determined.  I have
notes on how to read / transpose how to read Flexowriter into ascii
somewhere, but this is pretty much empty data just by looking at it, I'd
need to see more that just 80 80 80 80
b