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From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:01:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202001150401.00F41Bpj1685249@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202001150332.00F3WjAQ013229@cuzuco.com>

Brian Walden writes:
> > Papertape reader?
>
> The last Cyphercon had a paper tape reader in their badge --
>
> https://hackaday.com/2019/04/12/cyphercon-badge-has-a-paper-tape-reader-built-in/
>
> You can proably buy one from the con https://cyphercon.com/, or the makers
> http://www.tymkrs.com/ or ebay...
>
> -Brian

That's cool, but I'm worried about the fragility of the tape after all this time.
Maybe because I got my start in the early networking era when I had to transfer
files from one machine to another by feeding the paper tape from the punch in one
ASR-33 into the reader of another :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-15  4:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-15  3:32 Brian Walden
2020-01-15  4:01 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2020-01-15  4:50   ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-15  6:17 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-15  6:34   ` Earl Baugh
2020-01-15  7:10     ` [TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs [ really paper tape readers and tangentially related things ] Jon Steinhart
2020-01-15  8:05       ` Earl Baugh
2020-01-15 14:50       ` Clem Cole
2020-01-15 23:40         ` Al Kossow
2020-01-15 12:29     ` [TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs John Foust
2020-01-16  0:17       ` [TUHS] tape reading (was Re: Spacewar at Bell Labs) Al Kossow
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-01-14  8:54 [TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-14 16:59 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-14 17:15   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-14 17:19     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-14 17:26       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-15 23:32       ` Al Kossow
2020-01-14 17:25     ` Clem Cole

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