Peforator vs. reprefortor (Was: Re: [GreenKeys] RE: Status of...

[Gary Chatters]

On Mon, 10 May 2004, Douglas W. Jones wrote:

>
> A modest historical question from a kid who only began
> punching paper tape in 1968.  Why is it called a
> reperforator, as opposed to a simple perforator.
> Certainly, you're not reperforating an already
> perforated strip of tape.  I've wondered about this on
> and off for several years.
>

They way I always understood it:

A perforator punched tape directly from a keyboard, e.g. model 19.

A reperforator had selector magnets, etc. and punched from a line signal.
Thus, you could read a tape on TD, send the signal to a reperforator and
create a copy of the tape.

The naming does seem a bit odd, though.

Anyone have additions or corrections?


Gary