we also had ones that would punch the really wide tape for the formatters
for the line printer!
I remember the tape being much wider though!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: weird find: papertape "patch" puncher
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Recently I found this really cute, but weird-looking thingie. It
> > seems to be a handheld tool that allowed operators, field engineers
>
> Such things are actually (were actually?) quite common. A little jig to
> hold the tape and 2 different diameter punch pins (one for data holes,
> one for sprocket holes) to make corrections.
>
> Some of them could also be used to hold 2 pieces of tape which had to be
> spliced together. There were special adhesive tape 'patches' that were
> used for this -- punched with a complete set of data and sprocket holes.
> You used tohse in the obvious way to join the tape.
>
> Incidentally, if you have to splice paper tape and don't have the right
> jig, it's worth remembering that the holes are on a 0.1" by 0.1" matrix
> and that a piece of stripboard with some pins soldered into it will often
> work :-)
>
> -tony
>
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 04 2004 - 20:53:36 GMT