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Western Europe Wanted: a small amount of 8-level punched tape

Covers: Germany, France, UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco and Liechtenstein
jonathanjo

jonathanjo

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I'm working on a design for a punched tape reader and am hoping to find a small amount of punched tape to test and calibrate it with. No more than a metre.

Do you have some you could give me?

Like shown on Wikipedia:
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Ultimately (if it works right) the reader is for a public display, but the test tape is just for bench testing.

Obviously happy to pay the stamp (to London) and put something in the local homelessness charity. I'm trying to avoid the £10/metre nonsense on Ebay.

Many thanks indeed if you can help.

Jonathan.

PS. If beggars were also allowed to be choosers, ideally with a test pattern if you have a working punch; ideally a few pieces in different colours (mylar?!) but anything would be fine.
 
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I have two punches that are operating. One Facit 4070 and a DEC PC05. The Facit punches on green paper tapes that comes from rolls. The PC05 punches on black fan fold paper tape. I probably won’t have time in the near future to create arbitrary patterns but if you are happy with just some random data I think I can provide you with a couple of meters.
 
I will not be able to send anything until the weekend 9-10 November so if anyone can provide you with something faster you might possibly jump on that.
 
Hi there! I noticed this discussion and thought I'd ask: I'm working on restoring an ASR-33 Teletype, and I’m in need of some rolls of blank 8-level punched tape. Would anyone have some or a source (preferably usa) they could kindly share? I’d be happy to cover shipping costs. Thank you so much!
 
Just a note to thank everybody for their help and mark this as closed.

Donations were made to Shelter, the UK charity for housing and homelessness.
 
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