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Old 22nd Apr 2017, 2:44 am   #6
julie_m
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Default Re: ASR33 Teletype nostalga question

If you had too many corrections in a tape, you could always just re-punch it and the corrections would just be skipped. You sometimes had to re-punch well-used tapes anyway.

We had mostly gone over to VT-220s and clones by the time I got to Uni, but there was still some ancient kit knocking about -- and my first employer still had CNC machinery that used to use 7/8-bit punched paper tapes for program storage, up to at least 2002 and probably beyond.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone was making a device that used a microcontroller and an SD card to emulate a tape punch and reader, just to keep these old machines going.
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