[GreenKeys] wanted - used paper tape ??? Michigan Yooper

epvgk at limpoc.com epvgk at limpoc.com
Fri Apr 30 22:41:40 EDT 2021


On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 10:03:41PM -0400, Jim Cooper wrote:
> On 30 Apr 2021 at 13:27, Nick England wrote:
> 
> > I dunno - it's a CraigsList ad -
> > https://up.craigslist.org/wan/d/kingsford-wanted/7313620752.html
> > 
> 
> I contacted the poster of that listing ... 
> 
> > I was a USAF teletype operator from
> > 1967-1971 and I am trying to obtain any
> > 5 hole punched tape from that era to do
> > presentations to school kids on how we
> > communicated in the Vietnam era before
> > the digital age. Message not important
> > only that tape shows the punches (could
> > be chad-less or chad tape) so I can
> > explain how the teletype machine cut the
> > holes as messages were cut. 
> 
> I am going to rummage around my stuff and 
> send him some punched tape ! 
> 
> Jim  w2jc 

Nice! I'm sure we can come up with some tape for him. heh. 
I'd be happy to punch a few yards of news and weather
and send it along to him if it'd help. 


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