[Coco] Techrepublic Rocks !!!! Paper Tape

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 04 May 2008, George Ramsower wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Roger Merchberger"
>
>> Yes, I keep a box of 8" floppies & a few IBM 80-column cards on my desk
>> just to remind 'em how much of a "fogey" I really am. ;-) [2] The one
>> thing I never dealt with (outside the military and they wouldn't let me
>> keep any) was paper-tape - anyone have a sample (preferably punched) for
>> cost of postage? ;-)
>
> You reminded me of my FIRST printer for my FIRST coco. A 4K coco...
>
> Someone gave me a KSR teletype machine with a paper tape reader/writer. I
>modified it to do a LF on a CR so it would work with the coco RS-BASICK.
>Damn that thing was noisy. I even managed to use the tape to write and read
>stuff to and from the coco. What fun!! By then, I had upgraded the coco to
>64K.
>My wife made me go to the extreme of putting the machine in a hall closet,
>line the closet with blankets and keep the door shut so she wouldn't have to
>turn the TV up so loud to cover the noise.
>Damn that thing was noisy. Did I mention that?
>Damn that think was noisy.
>
>Nope! The machine and tapes are gone.... many years ago, along with my:
> 16mm movie camera and projector,
> the 45 RPM record duplicator,
> the record player that did 16,33,45 and 78 RPMs,
> the Heath H8
> and a host of other things I wish I had to sell now, including some
>automobiles.
>
> Ah....well, we toss some things and later regret it.
>
> I've NEVER tossed a coco. My first Grey case coco was stolen. They took
>just the coco and left the drives and all the other peripherals.
>What a dummy! The other stuff was worth more than the coco. What did they
>know?
>
> Hmm... I"m thinking I still have some of the boards that went into that H8
>...I'll have to look around for them.
>
>The H8 power supply is powering my darkroom enlarger now. I LOVE that power
>supply. Plenty of power and the transformer is a constant voltage
>transformer using a really BIG cap to keep it that way. Every now and again,
>when I turn it on, the thing oscillates and I have to power it down and turn
>it back on.
> Gene!
> Could that be a failing cap/condensor?
>
More than likely an artifact of being underloaded.
>
>George
>
>
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