I remember the paper tape reader being PR: as a device (papertape reader) ... and this one looks similar https://www.vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread_record.cfm?id=737&tid=1 from the back it looks like it could handle 60 characters a second. I remember the tape whizzing through it.
In fact I was still working with paper tape in mid-80s - one of our customers used them to generate test messages. During acceptance testing they would come into the room with a cardboard box full of numbered tapes and then run them through the various readers to verify that our software that was on the other end of the 80-0-80 connection handled it. They generally looked a bit like this ... ZCZC ABC123 RR CHICAGO MILAN .123 THE QUICK BROWN FOX ... NNNN Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), kcrw, supla finland, abc australia, cbc/radio-canada and rte ireland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Webster's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=105 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113437 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
