On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 11:08:15PM -0500, Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
The 2748B reader doesn't have a takeup reel, so naturally the tape goes all over the floor. Rewinding it is a PITA. I saw a picture of a handheld HP tape rewinder, and built my own to chuck into my cordless drill. Rewinds even faster than it spits out!
Things that visibly do stuff are fun. The DEC fanfold is nice the way it mostly restacks. May have seen rewinder in my VCFW straight 8 virtual demo where I used the HP winder. Claude Kagan gave that to me. Never found a manual to know if I was really operating it as intented but seemed to work well. https://youtu.be/QZrhgsRsiRg?t=1480 Do you have punch intended for Mylar? I would like to get copies of the DEC reader test tapes in mylar since they take some abuse in use.