1" paper tape buy ?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 4 Mar 2009 at 19:32, Roy J. Tellason wrote:

> > I haven't been following this thread very closely, but I trust
> > someone has mentioned the 96 column System/3 mini-card:
> >
> > http://homepages.cwi.nl/~dik/english/codes/96col.html
> >
> > Holds more characters, but less data than a standard 80 column card.
> 
> That was the one roughly the size of a 3.5" floppy,  wasn't it?  I worked at a 
> place once that used those...

Yep, about that size.  What made no sense to me is that each column 
is BA8421 - 6 bits.  This long after IBM had settled on 8-bit EBCDIC. 
Most installations had standardized on the 80 column card, so it 
didn't make much of a splash unless you were a System/3 installation.

Cheers,
Chuck