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  • WooShellWooShell@chaosfurs.social
    Jul 15, 2026, 7:51 PM

    @feeblu I have tried finding documentation on the tape reader, but there seems to be none. Siemens tape readers are well documented in the Tsend series, but no others.. and Gretag only comes up with their rather popular crypto telex machine, to which this device here does not belong. I have also looked through tons of books about the Siemens T10/T100/T200 telex series in the hopes that one of them would allow for an external tape reader, but this also lead nowhere.

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  • WooShellWooShell@chaosfurs.social
    Jul 15, 2026, 8:11 PM

    @feeblu well, for connecting this paper tape reader to an ongoing project (I'm trying to boot an ESP32 from tape). I had hoped this to be a lot easier than it turned out.. I guess the easier way will be to replace the connector with a known type.

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  • pebblefeeblu@donotsta.re
    Jul 15, 2026, 8:38 PM
    @WooShell it depends to what extent you want to destroy the thing.... I'm surprised the reader didn't come with any documents.
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  • WooShellWooShell@chaosfurs.social
    Jul 15, 2026, 8:42 PM

    @feeblu I got that reader from a garage sale for a few coins.. no documents, no idea where it's from or whether it was even working, but I just can't not buy such a thing ;-)
    Replacing the connector isn't that hard, there's quite a lot of space inside. I would just have preferred to leave it original.. but if that prevents me from using it, i'll at least go the least invasive route.

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