Al K has read hundreds of these Whirlwind tapes using a standard 8-track optical reader, so I think we can confirm that it is punched with the common geometry, except one track narrower, with four bits on one side of the sprocket holes, and three bits on the other. The tapes are for pedagogical purpose, so if I can punch on inch-wide tape and perhaps trim the width later, that works just fine. Thanks all! /guy
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:01:38 -0700 From: Al Kossow <a...@bitsavers.org> To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: punching paper tape Message-ID: <f52af974-dbc4-0a51-409e-b4cc2b907...@bitsavers.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On 3/26/21 2:58 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote: > OK thanks for that. I just had a browse and read that "Whirlwind used > the same paper tape format that was popular with Teletype machines" so > I gather it's nothing special after all. the best picture i have at hand of what a ww tape looks like is on the right of http://bitsavers.org/bits/MIT/whirlwind/X4222.2008_Whirlwind_ptp/pictures/start_of_sort_20180724/8.JPG you can see it is narrower by one punch than a normal 8-channel tape
