From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:25:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2OTFhpO-uw989bJuuRjevFF+7HBLuviDsGodY1ggGQpDw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wsgkihsdh.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>
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I built a paper tape reader at one point, lord knows were it is. It's
pretty easy -- Two pieces of wood to hold the paper with a mm or 2 shaved
off the bottom of one of them the width of the paper tape. Then 9 parallel
holes and put optical transistors connected to a 5 volt supply via a series
resistor, running into a parallel port the 4th one is used as a strobe to
pick of the 8 data bits and small light bulb on the other piece of wood.
You then just pull it through and its self strobing. Set up a cat <
/dev/parallel > /tmp/foo
Your basically done, you'll need to pick reasonable values for the
resistors to that match your transistors to switch on/off if the light
passed through the hole. I've forgotten what I used, it something I had in
the parts box.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:16 PM Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> wrote:
> Jon Steinhart wrote:
> > I have a copy of double-sun space war (sorry, just the binary) for the
> > PDP-15/GRIN-2 on DEC fan-fold paper tape with the boot loader written
> > in octal on the leader. Not sure if it's of any use
>
> I'm very interested in this! Is the paper tape readable somehow?
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-14 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-14 8:54 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 [this message]
2020-01-15 3:32 Brian Walden
2020-01-15 4:01 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-15 4:50 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-15 6:17 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-15 6:34 ` Earl Baugh
2020-01-15 12:29 ` John Foust
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