[TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs

Jon Steinhart jon at fourwinds.com
Wed Jan 15 14:01:11 AEST 2020


Brian Walden writes:
> > Papertape reader?
>
> The last Cyphercon had a paper tape reader in their badge --
>
> https://hackaday.com/2019/04/12/cyphercon-badge-has-a-paper-tape-reader-built-in/
>
> You can proably buy one from the con https://cyphercon.com/, or the makers
> http://www.tymkrs.com/ or ebay...
>
> -Brian

That's cool, but I'm worried about the fragility of the tape after all this time.
Maybe because I got my start in the early networking era when I had to transfer
files from one machine to another by feeding the paper tape from the punch in one
ASR-33 into the reader of another :-)


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