There was a Hackaday project by Donald Papp from April 16, 2022 for an optical paper tape reader with a USB interface if you want to build your own reader.
Frank > On Apr 12, 2025, at 3:47 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 4/12/25 15:33, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM Jay Jaeger via cctalk >> <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a paper tape reader here, but it has a parallel 12V open collector > interface. > > It would not be terribly difficult to create an interface to a PC parallel > port. I did that some time ago. > > Jon >
