PDP-8/E Paper Tapes from ECRM

From: jos.mar <jos.mar_at_bluewin.ch>
Date: Thu Sep 26 13:05:00 2002

On Wednesday 25 September 2002 4:11 am, you wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:49:09PM -0400, Christopher McNabb wrote:
> > While looking through the pile of stuff I got with the PDP-8/E, I found a
> > tray of papertapes from 'ECRM, INC'. The tapes are labeled as follows:
> >
> > Does anyone know who ECRM is/was, and what kind of machine/system these
> > tapes might have been used with?


ECRM made a OCR machine that used an 8/E as its brain. This machine needed a
lot of extra hardware ( in the form of a few extra omnibus boards) to achieve
this. Output of the operation was a papertape to be fed into a typesetting
machine.

Some of the ECRM omnibus boards are quite usefull : they have a two board
display system, with 80x24 char output and an IO board combing fast PPT
punch, fast PPT reader and serial channel, all on one omnibus board.
If you need anything ispecial , I have full docs on the ECRM system.

                                Jos Dreesen
Received on Thu Sep 26 2002 - 13:05:00 BST