[Info-vax] Editting paper tape

[Rob Brown]

On 2012-10-10, Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> 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-)
>
Reminds me of when I was in high school, editting my paper tapes
offline on an (I think) ASR-38.  Typing mistake?  Backspace the tape,
and then insert the RUBOUT character (%o377) the appropriate number of
times.  When you were done, you could run the tape back into the the
ASR-38 tape reader and simultaneously punch a new tape.  The RUBOUTs
were skipped during the copy and you got a clean tape out.



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