Paper tape standard

[Dave G4UGM]

There is a Pegasus emulator here:-

http://sw.ccs.bcs.org/CCs/simulate.htm

it can be configured to output the tape output to the printer port, so whilst you can't run a program on a real Pegasus you should be able to get paper tape out if you had a paper tape punch.

I was hoping to be able to feed the tape from this program into the original Creed 6S paper tape reader, and hence print it on the Creed printer from the Pegasus at MOSI Manchester.

Sadly, MOSI have decided they want to re-use the gallery the Pegasus is displayed on so the project has been suspended. I don't expect it to restart. I had got as far as printing from paper tape.

Dave Wade
G4UGM

-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mark Wickens
Sent: 16 January 2015 20:13
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Paper tape standard

I had a dream of creating a paper tape with a program I wrote on it for the Pegasus computer at the Science Museum. If they ever turn it on again, or another one crops up, I might not have any excuses left...

On 16 January 2015 at 20:09, tony duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>
> >     OBA! I'm crazy for creating a paper reader/perfurator! :D This 
> > is an
> old
> > dream of mine, although I have no specific computers who use it, nor 
> > any specimen of perfored tape around. But I find it to be just 
> > beautiful :)
>
> The reader is relatively easy to make at home, at least if you are 
> happy with a photoelectric one. If you trigger off the feed holes, you 
> don't need a sprocket drive, a capstan and pnch roller is fine. This 
> is the sort of thing you can make in a good home workshop.
>
> The punch is a lot harder. Making the punch pins and die block, and 
> then correctly grinding and hardening the former is not going to be easy.
> Mechanically the rest may not look too hard (the Facit 4070 used a set 
> of rotary solenoids and linkages, one per pin), but it is still a 
> major project.
>
> -tony
>