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From: Lawrence Wilkinson <ljw-cctech_at_ljw.me.uk>
Date: Thu Jan 13 16:54:50 2005

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 14:25, Paul Koning wrote:

> Paper tape readers can go much faster (I've seen 2000 cps) but those
> are optical readers, so the job is far easier.

At this stage I have to jump in with an impressive 5000cps example
(albeit 5bit) from 1944; of course it is:

http://www.picotech.com/applications/colossus.html

(This is a nice page on the optical reader)
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Lawrence Wilkinson                                 lawrence_at_ljw.me.uk
The IBM 360/30 page                       http://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360
Received on Thu Jan 13 2005 - 16:54:50 GMT

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