Wanted, Papertape Reader for Archiving Tapes

[David Collins]

Further to Dave’s post below, I’m happy to share the Arduino code and schematic if anyone has a suitable reader and wants to try it. It was indeed designed to interface to the HP2748 but is pretty simple and could be adapted to any similar reader. 

David Collins

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> On 29 Apr 2020, at 6:33 am, J. David Bryan via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 17:56, Tony Duell via cctech wrote:
> 
>> The HP2748 is a common-ish example of this type of un[i]t. 
> 
> David Collins of the HP Computer Museum and I just recently completed 
> reading some 200+ paper tapes from the museum collection.  He used a 2748 
> coupled with a custom Arduino-based interface to produce plain-text files 
> containing an octal representation of the tape bytes.  We passed these 
> through a small program to convert them to binary files and a second 
> program to verify checksums of those tapes containing relocatable or 
> absolute binary object data.  The resulting files can be used as is with 
> the HP 2100 SIMH simulator or could be punched back into physical paper 
> tapes if desired.
> 
>                                      -- Dave
>