[vcf-midatlantic] Paper tape

David Gesswein djg at pdp8online.com
Tue Feb 16 02:25:54 UTC 2021


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.



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