I used paper tape when I was in the Navy from 1969 to 1979 and then into the 1980's when I was in the Reserves. I was a CTO or Cryptologic/Communications Technician Operator and we used paper tape with the Teletype machines to send and receive messages within our communication centers.
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 3:13 AM Bernd Oppolzer <bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> wrote: > This German Wikipedia article about Lochstreifen (paper tape) has some > nice pictures: > https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochstreifen#Lochstreifenstanzer > > and this is a PDF about the display peripherals of our Telefunken machine: > > ftp://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/telefunken/tr440/doku/SIG100_SIG50_Mar1972.pdf > > you can see pictures of the text display SIG 50 and the graphics display > SIG 100, > which also had the world's first "computer mouse", the so-called > Rollkugel, attached to it: > http://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/misc/telefunken.shtml > > The article mentions the teletype Telefunken FSR 105 with a 5-hole paper > tape, > but I recall that at the Stuttgart installation there were General > Electric teletypes > with an 8-hole paper tape attached. I could not find pictures or > descriptions of this type. > I used this type regularly, when I was a student in Stuttgart from 1977 on; > until the machine went out of service in 1981. > > Kind regards > > Bernd Oppolzer > > > Am 13.01.2017 um 23:16 schrieb Bernd Oppolzer: > > BTW: the teletypes were General Electric devices, and the paper tape > > had 8 holes, not 5. > > So every row on the tape could hold one 8-bit byte; I don't know what > > coding it was. > > The machine had neither ASCII nor EBCDIC; it was another special > > Telefunken code (Zentralcode). > > > > The General Electric teletypes and the display terminals (text and > > even vector graphic devices) > > were not directly attached to the TR 440; there was a TR 86 S > > satellite computer doing the I/O work. > > This was in the late 1970s. > > > > Kind regards > > > > Bernd > > > > > > Am 13.01.2017 um 23:05 schrieb Bernd Oppolzer: > >> When I worked as a student at the university of Stuttgart, Germany > >> with the Telefunken TR 440 mainframe, before I had access to the > >> display terminals, > >> I had to use the card punch (IBM 29, IIRC). But there were also some > >> teletypes > >> attached to the machine, which could be used for a time sharing > >> dialog, and some > >> of them had a paper tape reader/puncher attached. > >> > >> So you could use this paper tape in the following way: > >> > >> when finishing work on one day, you could print your source code to > >> the teletype; > >> before output starts, you switched on the paper tape punch, and this > >> way you produced > >> a paper tape of your source code. (You had to finish before 7.15 pm, > >> that was GSP-ENDE, > >> end of dialog, otherwise your work was lost). > >> > >> Next day, you used the paper tape to read your source code again into > >> the machine > >> via the same teletype. > >> > >> This was very convenient; the paper tape was much smaller than a big > >> box of punched cards > >> and you hadn't to wait for the operator to process your punched cards > >> (which was closed shop). > >> We didn't have access to the LFD (langfristige Datenhaltung = long > >> term storage on disks etc) > >> at that time. > >> > >> Kind regards > >> > >> Bernd > >> > >> > >> > >> Am 13.01.2017 um 22:26 schrieb Mike Myers: > >>> For the education of the newbies, I'm going to take paper tape back > >>> to the '60s. I was in the Air Force from 1960-1964 as an electronics > >>> technician maintaining cryptographic equipment, some of which was > >>> used with teletype equipment. Teletypes used a 5-bit code called > >>> Baudot code. For those of you who have heard the term baud before, > >>> it represented a single character in the Baudot code. There was a > >>> specific code that shifted between letters and numbers/figures > >>> modes, so that there could be more than 32 values represented. > >>> > >>> Messages could be punched onto a paper tape from a keyboard and then > >>> later transmitted through a tape reader into a communications link. > >>> Or, on the receiving end, a message could either be printed by a > >>> teletype or punched into a paper tape for further transmission or > >>> later printing. The technology was eventually used with early > >>> computers, as you are hearing here. > >>> > >>> Mike Myers > >>> Mentor Services Corporation > >>> > >>> On 01/13/2017 03:35 PM, David W Noon wrote: > >>>> On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:21:58 -0600, Tom Marchant > >>>> (0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu) wrote about "Paper > >>>> tape > >>>> (was Re: Hidden Figures)" (in > >>>> <3742476116017335.wa.m42tomibmmainyahoo....@listserv.ua.edu>): > >>>> > >>>>> On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:56:57 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape > >>>>>> About 1974-75, I lived with my dad, manager of a Kroger store. At > >>>>>> night he would insert various strips of punch film into a reader to > >>>>>> report the store's daily transactions. > >>>>> Well into the 1970's almost every mainframe shop used paper tape. > >>>>> > >>>>> What was it used for? > >>>> In the mid 1970s I was working for a multi-national chemical > >>>> company in > >>>> Melbourne, Australia. We had 2 paper tape readers and 1 paper tape > >>>> punch. They were used mostly for threatening young programmers who > >>>> spoke > >>>> derisively about punched cards. ... :-) > >>> > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >>> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >>> > >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Mark T. 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