[GreenKeys] oiling tape?

[Randy and Sherry Guttery]

Pete Lancashire wrote:
> anyone use the oiled black paper tape ? I remember some that
> was like 5 yrs old .. man did it stink.
>   
Not sure...  - we (submarine service) used miles of black tape... If it 
was oiled - it wasn't obvious - but being black it wasn't obvious.  All 
of our programs for the SINS (navigation) computers were loaded via 
optical paper tape readers - which is why black tape. The tapes were 
punched on Freiden tape machines aboard the tenders from a mylar master. 
I don't recall one of those punches failing (not the actual punch). The 
master was loaded in the reader - then one (or both) punches would kick 
out a copy. Took quite a while (seemed like forever as noisy as those 
punches were - but probably 20 minutes or so a tape). The optical 
reader, on the other hand - could load a tape in short order (seems like 
just a few seconds - less than a minute - but it's been 40 years since I 
ran one).

best regards...

-- 
randy guttery 

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