> On Jan 16, 2017, at 10:52 AM, Paul Gilmartin > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 07:00:27 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: > >> On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:15:38 +0000, Vince Coen wrote: >> >>> If no where else it was on the printers for channel control. >> >> Yep. That's what I was thinking of. I didn't say that it was used for I/O. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriage_control_tape >> > I recall in that era that IBM printers used an idiosyncratic tape, as in > the Wikipedia illustration, requiring a proprietary punch (or would a > loose-leaf punch work?) CDC printers used a conventional Teletype > tape. Usually a collection of tape loops hung on a pegboard near > the printer. > > -- gil
Gil: That is not how I remember it at all. The Carriage tape on a 1403/3211(?) was just for that machine. i.e. skip to channel x As I have said before I do not ever remember seeing any IBM device or computer that had a paper tape reader/writer. This goes back to the 360’s . I just got off the phone with a friend and he does not remember it for the 14xx either. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
