[GreenKeys] oiling tape?

[Pete Lancashire]

yep black was for the optical readers the carbon did a a bit of friction but
not that much. where we were punching it, the punch had carbide pins
so it didn't matter.

I just remember the smell might of been the brand we were using
but it sure could get pretty rank.

-pete

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Randy and Sherry Guttery
<comcents at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 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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