Daniel Robbins hired by M$

[James Knott]

Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>>I'm actually more impressed by the PDP-8 LISP that I have in paper
>>tape...
>>I guess reading these tapes by eye might actually be practical.
> 
> The modern way to read them, obviously, is to *scan* them (against a
> background sheet of contrasting color) -- 25cm at a time if you don't want
> to cut them up -- and process the images to recover the bits.  Probably
> wouldn't even be terribly hard, actually. 

Anyone here remember the Oliver Audio Engineering paper tape readers?
They were sold as a kit and were mechanically quite simple.  The tape
had to be pulled through by hand.  They sold for about $75, IIRC.

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