On 4/11/2010 2:17 AM, LDosser wrote:
"Morris Dovey" wrote in message
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Hmm - I may have seen one of those. At one point in '65 the outfit I
was working for needed more capacity so one Saturday I was loaded into
a cab with a couple dozen tapes to borrow the 70/45 at NIPSCO
(Northern Illinois Public Service Co).

Brain fart. It couldn't have been NIPSCO - must have been ComEd.

Did they have a goony bird paper tape reader? Sometimes you had to use
the eraser on the end of a pencil to keep the pt reader from snapping
the tape. Idea was to use an Unsharpened pencil - DAMHIKT! I used to be
able to read the paper tape manually.

No paper tape on the RCA systems I used (thankfully), but the home
system was tape only. The good part about the utility's system was that
they had a disk drive for the operating system. Pure luxury for a TOS
operator.

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/