[Info-vax] TK50 - this is annoying...
Johnny Billquist
bqt at softjar.se
Wed Oct 10 13:55:22 EDT 2012
On 2012-10-10 15:40, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <k51v8l$g5r$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>>
>> Right.
>> It was originally "Tape Editor and Corrector", and the tape referred to
>> is paper tape.
>
> You can edit and correct paper tape? I thought that required a hole
> punch and some glue. 8-)
No glue. Guess why DEL is octal 177... :-)
But of course you have a paper punch. How would you otherwise have
created the tape in the first place?
But anyway, you are always also allowed to read in data, and then punch
a new tape.
Johnny
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