[Milsurplus] [MRCA] Lunar Photos

[Peter Gottlieb]

I recently brought some paper tape into work and none of the kids there had any clue what it was!


Peter

> On Apr 25, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
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> Having the ability to read  and punch paper tape is way up on my want list!  Much of the work that I have been doing is getting a modern system running windows to transmit text files thru its serial port and mimic a paper tape reader. Hours of time wasted on learning how to format text files and loaders to trick the systems into thinking it's a real paper tape reader. What often sounds like a simple thing often tends to be more complex then it first appears.
> 
> Ray F 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Forster [mailto:jfor at quikus.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 12:41 PM
> To: Ray Fantini
> Cc: Michael; 'Military Surplus Mail List'; 'Military Radio Collectors Association'
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] [MRCA] Lunar Photos
> 
> I still have the capability of reading punch cards, reading and punching paper tape, and 7 track mag tape. Some of the older mag tape is flakeing badly and won't be readable for much longer.
> 
> -John
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> 
>> Platforms come and go at alarming speed these days. Not uncommon to 
>> see pallets of tapes being sold at Wallops or Goddard for next to 
>> nothing. The last couple years there have been almost endless lots of 
>> D1 digital video cassettes, a huge expensive non compressed digital 
>> format for analog NTSC Here at the university we just pulled some one 
>> inch C format video tapes we had from the nineties and found that all 
>> the local TV stations no longer have that format and am now looking at 
>> trying to find a playback deck for that format. We still have a 
>> working 16 MM projector and am surprised by how many have come and 
>> wanted us to transfer from that to video. The problem is not that 
>> there is not the media out there but the equipment to transfer the old media to any current format is the issue.
>> In the last five or ten years I have been working with old DEC 
>> computers at home, maybe more then with radios. The thing that 
>> occupies the most time is rebuilding drives and copying media with one 
>> of the largest ongoing projects being transferring old files to more 
>> modern platforms and getting modern systems to be able to push 
>> software to old systems. That's the big project around the shop these days.
>> 
>> Ray F
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