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Re: Paper tape readers for micros. (Re: I feel 31337!111!!)
- Subject: Re: Paper tape readers for micros. (Re: I feel 31337!111!!)
- From: alanjv@nospam.home.com (Alan Jones)
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:22:17 GMT
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:04:35 -0500, Michael Black
<blackm00@Gloria.CAM.ORG> wrote:
>Huh? There were paper tape readers for microcomputers in the early days.
>
>A reader was easy, a punch more difficult. There were programs
>distributed in the early days of micros on paper tape, because there
>were people with tape readers.
> Michael
Boy, that takes me back. My first comuter experience with computers
was with a TTY teletype machine; timeshared a PDP-8 (or was it a
PDP-11), 110 baud acoustical modem, one character at a time impact
printing, paper tape punch/reader. This is essentialy the machine you
see and hear briefly in"The Andromeda Strain". I wonder if anyone has
has TTY sound files available, or even a TTY (sound) emulator?
So, was there a paper tape punch/reader unit availabe and compatable
(or easily adaptable) with the C64?
Has anyone adapeted that CueCat thing and been able to read some of
those archaic barcode like data things?
Alan Jones