[game_preservation] Preserving TTY paper tape

[Andrew Armstrong]

Any tape programs made at TNMOC are just recorded in simple text files I 
think, although there is no concentrated effort to get everything 
recorded just yet - some tapes are so old we will need to do them by hand.

We put the data back on tapes pretty easily. All serial stuff connected 
to the punchers I think, but I can get more information tomorrow on how 
it is done from the experts :)

Andrew

On 20/01/2012 15:08, 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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