could early rolls have been on graphite or metal instead of cardboard? Or a metal reusable core with a hollow cardboard tube holding the paper, like paper towels?
<pre>--Carey</pre> > On 06/13/2024 12:45 AM CDT Fritz Mueller via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > > > On 6/12/2024 8:28 PM, mark audacity romberg via cctalk wrote: > > Yeah, something’s missing here, teletype paper is for sure not good as a > > dummy load. > > <shrug> > > Sounded pretty strange to me, but the commenter is a fairly accomplished > person in the accelerator electronics and detector division, and the audience > (on a general channel) was the entire staff of the lab. So I assume there > was *something* to the tale... > > I wonder what might be missing or lost in translation down the years? I > figure if anybody had heard of such a thing, it might be some of this lot :-) > > --FritzM.
