[GreenKeys] Lost in history ? How was paper tape oiled ? ...

[Chris Elmquist]

whatever the "oil" is, it eats rubber.  I have a large number of tapes for Altair 680 that were stored with a rubber band around them to keep them rolled up and in every case, the rubber band has melted into the tape and made a hell of a mess of it. Most of these tapes won't feed through the M33's reader now. One of them is an _unopened_ copy of Microsoft BASIC for the 680 which sadly now is only a gooy mess inside a small plastic bag.

Chris N0JCF

On August 12, 2015 5:12:43 PM CDT, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>On Wed, 12 Aug 2015, Jones, Douglas W wrote:
>
>> >> What was the oil ?
>> > 
>> > Midnight Oil, of course :-)
>> 
>> Does it burn?  For that matter, has anyone tried KS7470 in an oil
>lamp?
>
>Well, the Beds were certainly Burning...
>
>OK, you need to be a rock-n-roller to understand the reference.

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Chris Elmquist