[GreenKeys] RE: Status of Hoff Net on 10.137300 (mark)/10.137130(space)

[Gerry Block]

A perforator punches directly from the keyboard keys.  A reperforator has
the selector magnets to receive the data and punch it..

Gerry
AD6MC

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:greenkeys-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Douglas W. Jones
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 6:54 AM
To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] RE: Status of Hoff Net on 10.137300
(mark)/10.137130(space)



On May 10, 2004, at 8:23 AM, Eric Scace K3NA wrote:

> The 12 letters were used
> the form about an inch of paper tape that could be immediately ripped
> from the reperforator;

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.

Mostly, in the computer world where I lived, they were
punches and not perforators.

		Doug Jones
		jones at cs.uiowa.edu

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