Paper tape

From: davidmercier_at_newengleng.com <(davidmercier_at_newengleng.com)>
Date: Tue Nov 25 09:01:46 2003

Newer paper tape is not oil impregated at all but has a barrier / lubricant made from resins. Tape is still available from The Trybus Company in Pittsburgh. (412 367-1880) They also carry Mylar tape which I prefer.
Quite often a customer will come to me with an old worn out executive tape and ask me to "do Something". I will generally read in the tape using a DSI reader that I have slowed down to 30 CPS and have narrowed the strobe width to 1/6 the charactor width. I will then use a FACIT 4070 to generate a new tape onto Green/Gold mylar. On executive tape using all 8 bits and no parity I use norton disk edit to make any manual repairs. This eliminates the need to splice fragile originals.

David A. Mercier
New England Engineering Services
25 West Street
Stafford Springs, Ct. 06076
(860) 684-5980 Fax: 684-5982
Received on Tue Nov 25 2003 - 09:01:46 GMT