Wanted, Papertape Reader for Archiving Tapes

Bill Degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 11:01:21 CDT 2020


Hi - COVID project.... I have been attempting to read some old Honeywell
DDP-516 papertapes using the OP-80A or Teletype reader but it's inefficient
and I don't want to damage the tapes.  Does anyone have a reliable
papertape reader for sale, or recommend one currently out there on Ebay,
for the purpose of archiving papertapes of any kind safely and reliably.  I
have a reasonable budget.  I have a lot of tapes that need to be archived,
so I'd want one that I can interface with to capture into TAP files or what
I would call a raw dump listing of the data in 8-bit Hex.   MITS, SWTPc,
Z80 stuf, PDP 8, PDP 11, Honeywell, etc.

End goal is to load tapes into simH, PDPGUI, Altair/S-100, textfiles to
display tapes.  I want to be able to view the tape as it would be in Intel
or Motorola format, etc.  What does everyone else do?

For example:
S1131C102C20DEBD19217E167DBD185FD6259626A3
S1131C209B27C900D70297037E167DBD1999DE282C
S1131C30DF2C9C022742D6029603902DD22C2A1C1C
S1131C40D62C962DBD015ADF2CD6029603BD015A1F
S1131C509C2C2724A600BD02270820F4D602960354
S1131C60BD015ADF2ED62C962DBD015A9C2E270875
S1131C70A600BD02270820F47E167DDEDBDF027E8F
S1071C80167D0000C9
S9030000FC

Thanks for any advice.

Bill


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