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A quick program to generate man readable text on a punched paper tape.

This is a Unix utility that as standard input takes the file to print on the paper tape. As output it gives a file that contains data to be punched to the paper tape.

how it was done

Pontus helped my taking photos of a number of punched paper tapes from DEC.

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Then I compiled all patterns on a page and figured out the encoding of each character.

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