[GreenKeys] 1/2 paper tape - what was it used for? has a small hole in th...

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Thanks to all that  responded both on list and offlist...
 
Oddly enough I  do  remember a pen register in a   bell system gray  metal 
box  with lid   stashed  here   in storage. Kind of a funny thing... the 
register   has  brass on it and looks  old as is lacquered  brass   but  
pristine and the  gray  box  is  as  new as I  remember...  did not seem to be an 
ANCIENT thing...
can anyone tell   us more about what this was used  for  ?  a dial pulse 
counter?!?!?   a secret agent    recorder for numbers dialed?
 
We  do have a Bunnel (SP?)  pen register  also in one of  the   displays... 
but  thought it  used  narrower   tape...  
 
We  were asked if it was  11/16  for the wheatstone  system   measured  
with  crude tape measure    tape  fit between the 1/2  marks
 
Thanks much  for the info and  
please  other info needed on the bell gray case regiester
 
 
Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)  
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/2/2016 7:51:57 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
duncanancy at earthlink.net writes:

Ed,

Samuel Morse's original Morse code system was mechanical  and recorded 
the dots and dashes with a pen on a strip of paper tape (aka  "slip"). 
Originally a solenoid moved a pen down onto the paper to make the  dots & 
dashes. Later, the pen drew a continuous line showing dots and  dashes. 
Various widths of paper tape were used. Some of the very oldest  ones 
were at least an inch wide.

Lots of different widths were used  for telegraph slips and printing 
telegraph strip printers.  You just  have to find some equipment that it 
fits into!

have  fun,

Duncan
K2OEQ


On 02-Oct-16 01:41, Ed Sharpe Archivist  for SMECC via GreenKeys wrote:
> wow found  some 1/2 paper tape  -  what was it used  for? has a small 
> hole in the  core?
> Was over at  one  of our  aux   buildings  and stuck my had in a box
> and there was 3 rolls of  this.   This was put there  24  years ago!
> Any  ideas?
> I either had  no interest in it at the  time or  ?
> Ed# www.smecc.org  <http://www.smecc.org>
>


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