[GreenKeys] More recent use of punch hole tape

[Eric Moore]

https://youtu.be/hGr0F9a7x1A

Here is my video of a punch that was used for that purpose, up into the 90s
I believe.

My BRPE can kick its butt for speed :)

My dream is to get a DRPE, but those things are super rare apparently.

-Eric


On Sun, Apr 4, 2021, 6:45 PM steve bennett via GreenKeys <
greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> This may be a little off topic but in the 1980s when I worked in the
> machine shop
> we had some CNC machines and we loaded the jobs into the machine using
> paper tape
> with holes punched in.
> The CNC machines were capable of reading programming via RS232 but they
> could never get that to work
> because there was so much electrical interference in the shop so they just
> used the paper tape instead.
>
> My uncle still works there. I should ask him if they are still doing that.
>
> -Steve AD8CI
>
>
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