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    Low tech CNC Editor

    Does anyone remember this? It's for splicing and editing paper tape. You would cut the tape and then splice in a section with changes. For simpler changes you could lay a sticker with a grid of holes and one solid section and then punch a new byte of code.(1 character).
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    Unfortunately I remember it well. It was used in conjunction with a Flex o writer to punch holes & splice together the paper & later Mylar tape that contained the N/C program. Since there was no memory, the tape was rewound & rerun for each repeat of the program. If the tape broke or was corrected, it was spliced on that device. I used it to repair tapes starting in 1962.
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    In conjunction with a flex writer.

    I never used one that looked like that. But only with a Flex Writer. Also the Textronic Graphics Computer with a tape punch, using a manual post written in Textronic Graphics BASIC. (That computer belonged to engineering and was later trashed do to non-use.) And later, a standalone tape punch CAM system by NUMERIDEX later called NICAM. Would also use the manual post from the C/PM OS using MBASIC. 8" disks. And punched paper tape. Mylar would only be used for programs to be ran more for than 50 parts.

    That ended for me in '91 do to job lay off. Sargent Fletcher (1981-1991)

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    Used one similar to that. Along with a model 33 Teletype. Then we got a Numeridex Tape Prep system. You could type in your line of code, examine if it was right and then when you pressed Enter it would punch. This was when I worked at Sheldon Machine In Chicago 1979-1981.

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    I never got to use one, but there was one next to the paper tape machine I used as an undergrad. I realized that I made a mistake, but there wasn't enough time for the lab tech to teach me how to fix it. I got to use the paper tape machine twice since I slept through an exam the first time I took the course. Manufacturing Processes would have been the worst class I took as an undergrad if it weren't for the lab -- taking the lab twice was something I didn't mind at all.


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