14 Jan
2026
14 Jan
'26
12:03 p.m.
Paul, knowing that you worked with typset-11 , would you know of a copy of the software
that’s available? Another list member has acquired a vt52 and asked what it was used for.
Typeset-11 came up.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 14, 2026, at 10:57, Paul Koning via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Jan 14, 2026, at 1:17 PM, Adrian Godwin via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I bought a reel of paper tape at an office supply shop today.
It was in their 'bargains' room and is marked
NCR
SYSTEMEDIA
01-6388181
Telex 888634
PTI
Made in England
It cost me £0.50. I think they had two more reels. it's age is indicated by
having a London phone number that was made obsolete 30 years ago.
However, what surprises me is that it's 17.5 mm (0.69", 11/16") wide. This
seems too narrow for 7-hole tape and too wide for the tape used for
telegrams. Is it for 5-hole tape ?
By "telegrams" did you mean Wheatstone tape, i.e., two rows to encode Morse?
I've only seen that in ads for McElroy/Creed punched paper Morse code machines (e.g,
in the 1954 ARRL Amateur Radio Handbook).
1 inch is standard for 8 row tape. It's also often used with 7-row codes like some
Flexowriters use. But there are more obscure sizes specificallyl for 7 row and 6 row
tape. 6 row is the standard tape for typesetting machines, starting with Linotype
machines and continuing with early phototypesetters. It was also used (for that reason)
for newspaper wire service feeds.
paul