Another weird paper tape

[wrcooke at wrcooke.net]

> On December 24, 2018 at 10:24 AM Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> 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:
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> The tape is dated 22 October 1958.
> >>
> >> Any ideas what this could have been used for?
> >>
> >> The 8th channel is set since I read this on an 8-channel reader.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Kyle
> >>
> >
> > 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

Perhaps I'm just showing my ignorance, but if these are 7 track tapes, shouldn't the max value be 7f?  Am I missing something?

Will