[conspire] punched paper tapes (was: Re: EIA RS-232-C, ... Re: DE-9, not DB-9 (was: ...

[Michael Paoli]

> From: "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] EIA RS-232-C, ... Re: DE-9, not DB-9 (was: ...
> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 20:18:39 -0800

> Quoting Texx (texxgadget at gmail.com):
>
>> Several things:
>>
>> I will admit to confusion about DE.
>
> All you need know about DE-9 is that product packaging will reliably
> and consistently say 'DB-9'.
>
>> I still have a current loop teletype.
>
> D00d!  Maybe I can finally find out what's on my punched paper tapes
> left over from the '70s.  (It's probably stuff like David Ahl's port of
> LUNAR to HP Time-Shared BASIC.[1])

I don't think it's too hard to read/decode those tapes.  If I recall
correctly, many of them were basic even parity ASCII ... but it's been a
*long* time - so I may not have that correct.  I know I had a tape where
I typed/punched out the alphabet.  :-)