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

[Ralph Mowery]

Sure does.  I use Owl Clips (sort of a paper clip) to hold my tapes together 
while rolled up.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Elmquist" <chrise at pobox.com>
To: "Dave Horsfall" <dave at horsfall.org>; "Greenkeys" 
<greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Lost in history ? How was paper tape oiled ? ...


> 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