Paul, knowing that you worked with typset-11 , would you know of a copy of the software that’s available? Another list member has acquired a vt52 and asked what it was used for. Typeset-11 came up. Sent from my iPhone
> On Jan 14, 2026, at 10:57, Paul Koning via cctalk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> On Jan 14, 2026, at 1:17 PM, Adrian Godwin via cctalk >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I bought a reel of paper tape at an office supply shop today. >> >> It was in their 'bargains' room and is marked >> >> NCR >> SYSTEMEDIA >> 01-6388181 >> Telex 888634 >> >> PTI >> Made in England >> >> It cost me £0.50. I think they had two more reels. it's age is indicated by >> having a London phone number that was made obsolete 30 years ago. >> >> However, what surprises me is that it's 17.5 mm (0.69", 11/16") wide. This >> seems too narrow for 7-hole tape and too wide for the tape used for >> telegrams. Is it for 5-hole tape ? > > By "telegrams" did you mean Wheatstone tape, i.e., two rows to encode Morse? > I've only seen that in ads for McElroy/Creed punched paper Morse code > machines (e.g, in the 1954 ARRL Amateur Radio Handbook). > > 1 inch is standard for 8 row tape. It's also often used with 7-row codes > like some Flexowriters use. But there are more obscure sizes specificallyl > for 7 row and 6 row tape. 6 row is the standard tape for typesetting > machines, starting with Linotype machines and continuing with early > phototypesetters. It was also used (for that reason) for newspaper wire > service feeds. > > paul
