Seeking paper tape punch

steven at malikoff.com steven at malikoff.com
Mon Feb 21 20:24:18 CST 2022


Ben said
> This requires a REAL MACHINE SHOP ...  none this 3d printer stuff. I
> would recommend a building a 35mm film punch and reader, as film stock
> is still easy to find compared to paper tape. Zuse used them for his
> computers in Germany on the 40's. Quality Mechanical stuff is lost high
> tech.

Consumer-grade CNC stencil cutters are fine at cutting plastic sheet and should be ok with film stock.
My ptap2dxf (latest version 1.3) will produce output to cut tapes for 8-level ASCII, 5-level Baudot, 2-level Morse (Wheatstone and
Cable Code), 7-level Whirlwind, Teletype Chadless and some customising options too.
Still some other formats to do such as Colossus etc. Thanks for the notion of making Zuse tape, will look into it.

Steve.




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