end of an era

[k0ua]

I saved a few rolls of teletype punched paper tape from my very first computer class - approximately 1975. The tape is 1 inch, not 13/16.

View attachment 337639 I have no idea what I stored on them or if it's even possible to find out. I guess I just hang on to them for good luck.

Somewhere, I still have a collection of IBM keypunch cards that were used by the IBM 029 keying machine. I still recall the series of sounds the machine made as it fed in a card, punched it, and passed it down the line. And repeated, over and over and over. A fascinating machine, I thought.

That is not a Baudot tape, and I believe it is a an ASCII tape, and it would be easy to human decode the characters if you wanted to take the time.

 

[k0ua]

I saved a few rolls of teletype punched paper tape from my very first computer class - approximately 1975. The tape is 1 inch, not 13/16.

View attachment 337639 I have no idea what I stored on them or if it's even possible to find out. I guess I just hang on to them for good luck.

Somewhere, I still have a collection of IBM keypunch cards that were used by the IBM 029 keying machine. I still recall the series of sounds the machine made as it fed in a card, punched it, and passed it down the line. And repeated, over and over and over. A fascinating machine, I thought.

That is not a Baudot tape, and I believe it is a an ASCII tape, and it would be easy to human decode the characters if you wanted to take the time.

 

[Beltman60]

yep thats ASCII tape
used hundreds of thousands of feet in the late 70's early 80's running NC and CNC machines with that
don't miss that one bit
but love the thread


moving 3 years ago found an old daisywheel printer
somehow that was hard to toss in the trash
don't know why hadn't been used in 20 years

 

[farmgirl19]

If I dug through my attic, I might find a typewriter that uses the old daisywheel! I remember typing resume's on it!

 

[Soundguy]

Ultrarunner I am working on a model 14 and 15 Teletype to donate to a Museum for display of how electronics used to be.
"0" weight oil and paper tape getting hard to locate . Or at a price I'm unwilling to pay.

ken

try sewing machine oil, and or some of the ultra fine 0w energy savings syn engine oils

 

[Soundguy]

remember them daisy wheels.

going thru the closet at work, found 2 cases of tractor feed continous form paper.. 1 letter and 1 wide for a plotter..

 

[ultrarunner]

Yep... that's what my garage tape mill uses.

 

[mostly_gas]

Little surprised no one has mentioned S-100 based computing. I started with the IBM 360 with key punch cards and Fortran IV and Watfive (sp). Once work quit using time share transitioned to a Digital MicroVax II on MicroVMS 4 and serial based graphic terminals. Then on to Unix stations before getting DOS workstation to run AutoCad. Still have 1 printronix parallel printer in use for paper invoicing.

 

[mostly_gas]

SG was that printing issue caused by accounting sofware using ASCII print streams?

 

[PhysAssist]

Wow. I forgot all about Geos. You kinda dated your self with DOS and Geos. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

Read my knee replacement thread if you want to see me lmake myself ook old