[game_preservation] Preserving TTY paper tape

[Henry Lowood]

Devin,
Just to clarify: Are you asking about preserving the paper tape or about 
migrating the contents as a data preservation technique or about 
duplicating the paper tape so that you can have a use copy?
Henry

On 1/20/2012 7:08 AM, Devin Monnens wrote:

> What is the best way of preserving TTY paper tape? I think since it's

> visual if the image is scanned with a black background, you would then

> have a white image with black holes, but I don't know how you'd

> translate any of that into machine-readable data (i.e. to replicate

> the code for an emulator) or to make a copy of the tape for use in a

> restored computer.

>


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