> On May 7, 2020, at 6:37 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> ...
> I made up an output hopper from a sheet of cardboard, some pieces of
> corflute, three
> pieces of 30x10x220mm wood and a piece of perspex on the front so I could
> check the
> tape was fanfolding correctly. This has a hole at the top and hangs on the
> spindle, the
> reader is placed on the edge of the bench so the hopper can hang below it.
I remember an output hopper for collecting paper tape as it came through a high
speed (1000 cps optical) reader, at U. Eindhoven, THE system. I think the
hopper was simply a large bucket, essentially a large trash can. When the tape
was finished the operator would put the end into a tape winder and wind it back
up from the bucket. This seemed to work well; it was done for hundreds of
tapes per day -- this was a batch system with paper tape input for programs and
data.
paul
