[vcf-midatlantic] Mylar Tape

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
It's funny that we're talking about mylar punch tape on that auction
site today. Because I was thinking of the place where I first saw
punch tape in paper, it was at the first phototypesetting job that my
father had taken at a shop in Manhattan. They did so for a system
running on a DG Nova 2, and then it got created by the system itself
to be run on a Merganthaler VIP machine. The TTY was a noisy as
anything model 33. (By the time he left there the job had upgraded
itself to a Nova 3.) The second place was at a shop also in Manhattan
and next door to where our hot metal typesetting shop was, and there
he basically created an entirely new shop. The original setup ran on a
paper of PDP-8 systems with specialty terminals creating the input
also on puch tape, and the systems used I8008 processors. The output
also was done the same way and also for VIP machines. When that shop
closed they were eventually using laser based systems.

But this has nothing to do with the dino footprints in the mud next
door to the bunkhouse and a very big tent.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."

On Mon, Mar 27, 2023 at 4:53 PM Duane Craps via vcf-midatlantic
<vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
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> There is cheap mylar punch tape on ebay.
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> I bought a few rolls.
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> https://www.ebay.com/itm/392994905002?hash=item5b80525baa:g:tZoAAOSwJUdeZ5ki&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAwFR15icY4IDj%2BA4FOlXLMgwfuFIMe0H469mNeza4GfAeNrqJoSs%2FrhwBRZCixi%2F32LY1xb6MIRpVSI5cL%2BeuVssl%2FRzQaEDPgvKxAeBI87jFxh9y4Y2QDSbyA3ISCNOZp5Ldeo6qKVEqJINjuprEJL6mVqCOPJ%2B8zBTVMjRqg7vtoAsmf6yNtJNxlwEXxbFz6s8uU%2FQgzGN2rvkeSzGXkLrD8DRtPblbW6JVsoO4DVBuaQOyTGH94e7F5Fd1ZrFY%2Bw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR-ql88PkYQ
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> DuaneCraps
> sdɐɹɔ ǝuɐnp
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