[GreenKeys] oiling tape?

[Randy and Sherry Guttery]

Pete Lancashire wrote:
> One day an engineer needed a roll of tape for the ASR-35 in our lab. Well he
> didn't ask us dumb tech's and took a roll of the mylar tape. Thing needed new
> punch pins before the roll was consumed.
>   
(LOL) - we were tempted on occasion to do that (put mylar in the punch - 
to see how long before it became silent) but we couldn't afford to be 
without punches --- ya' just don't say "sorry" to boomers needing their 
tapes... 

 > 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 have no idea what kind of pins the Freidens had - I suspect they were 
much tougher than what are in TTYs - seems like the tape was a bit 
thicker and stiffer than tty tape- and of course fan-folded for feeding 
the optical tape readers...

best regards...

-- 
randy guttery 

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