Dee Kavouras wrote:

> A few years ago in an AMICA article someone mentioned that he was using
> some sort of tape for repairing the chain sections, and which actually
> had little chain-like holes in it.  Does anyone know about this tape and
> where one could obtain some?

Now that brings back memories!  Back in the days of PDP-8 computers and
Teletype machines there used to be a special perforated repair tape for
when you accidentally ripped (or trod on) your paper program tapes.
It certainly was "a few years ago" -- like 30!

I think I've still got some of it somewhere (along with an ASR-33, and
a lifetime supply of paper tape). I suspect it is too thick for roll
repairs, but I'll check it out and see.  Who knows, there might even be
modern suppliers of this sort of material, if paper tape is still alive
in some remote corner of industry.

John Wolff, Australia

 [ Ah, yes, the "8-level" paper tape, which is still used for numerical
 [ control shop machines where the environment is too severe for floppy
 [ disks, etc.   -- Robbie