[GreenKeys] [External] BRPE in action?

Jones, Douglas W douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu
Sun Apr 23 12:04:00 EDT 2023


From: Paul Heller [paul0926 at comcast.net] -- Sunday, April 23, 2023 10:52 AM
> I was watching an old computing history video about the 1963 Sperry Rand Univac Fastrand Magnetic Drum and there was a photo of the Univac 418. Isn’t that a BRPE I see in there?
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luPM6XaKZuU&t=457s  The photo appears at 10:15 into the video

The rightmost thing sticking out of the end of the machine does look like the face of a BRPE.  The high-speed paper-tape reader to the left of it is not a Teletype product.  It looks a bit like a Digitronics reader, but I'm not sure.

         Doug Jones

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