Reading PDP-8 paper tapes

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwightk.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Tue Jul 1 13:48:00 2003

>From: "Peter Turnbull" <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
>
>A long-time acquaintance of mine (Graham Toal, whom some of you may
>know) has access to a collection of PDP-8 paper tape which wants
>reading. Unfortunately some of it is in the care of the Royal Musuem
>in Edinburgh, who won't let it out of their sight.
>
>Does anyone -- preferably in the UK -- have a paper tape reader that
>could be hooked up to a modern machine (eg a laptop) to read the tapes
>in the museum, and which they'd be willing to lend?
>
>To see what Graham and friends are doing, take a look at
>http://history.dcs.ed.ac.uk/ It's worth a look even if you're not
>interested in Edinburgh.
>
>I know Graham reads the list, so replies here or to me are fine.
>
>--
>Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> University of York
>


Hi
 I don't live close enough but it isn't too hard to
connect, even a parallel paper tape reader. I have
one that does folded paper tape that I connected to
my lap top's parallel printer port.
Dwight
Received on Tue Jul 01 2003 - 13:48:00 BST

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