1" paper tape buy ?

[Mike Loewen]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Chuck Guzis wrote:

> 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.

    Here's what the keypunch looked like for these little guys:

http://rlfranz.net/AmericanDistilling_DataProcessing/Images/Keypunch.jpg


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