[GreenKeys] Mylar & paper tape question

Mike odaymg at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 9 06:08:28 EDT 2013


Hmmmmm... <memory address error: error 404: stack overflow>  I don't remember the model number, I didn't do much work on the punch & reader. That was the purview of the systems FE's and I was BMG. But it looked like this:


Wasn't the 205 a disk drive?
 
Mike O'Day
N9ODM


On Aug 9, 2013, at 4:57, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:

> Mike!   what console  machine?  the flexowriter console on the Burroughs  205 <grin!>
>  
> We ended up  with all Jack Aldridge's   stuff  ( service  for Burroughs at about the time of the electrodata changeover  he was in Pasadena  and  phx  both)    and any way there are a few  reels  I remember of the blue mylar in  his  stash....  we  own  our  Burroughs  collection to his hoarding....
>  
> Ed Sharpe Archivist  for SMECC  www.smecc.org
>  
> In a message dated 8/9/2013 2:49:30 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, odaymg at yahoo.com writes:
> In the "olden days" when I worked for Burroughs, we used to punch all of our MTR tapes (and copies of some customer tapes) on the blue Mylar reinforced paper tape, and I don't recall the Mylar tape causing a problem with our punch. Is there that much of a difference between the punch on our L2000 and a teletype    punch?
> 
> Mike O'Day
> N9ODM
> 
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