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Subject: Re: card guide
To: SBC-85 <craig@sbc-85.com>
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From: denverh <denverh2000@gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2023 17:38:07 -0700
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SBC-85 wrote:
> Interesting Welles got in touch with you  learn anything particularly 
> interesting?
Not really, he just mentioned that he was pleasantly surprised to learn 
of someone actually using K2FDOS, let alone resurrecting it "millions of 
years later".
> Some time ago I searched for him and came across his son on Facebook 
> and LinkedIn. I sent his don messages to tell his dad about your 
> project and sent a link. But unfortunately I don’t think I ever heard 
> back.
Not too surprising I guess.
>
> Mostly eBay for paper tape. At one time I was going to have a paper 
> supplier cut a roll into tape, but shortly before placing the order, I 
> was able to pick some up locally from an old ham radio fellow who was 
> quitting.  Having a roll of paper custom parted was not all that 
> expensive.
I found some discussions on CNC forums where a few people said they had 
boxes of it if anyone wanted any of it.  The discussions were all from 
over 10 years ago, though.  Some old NC and CNC machines apparently 
still use paper tape, 8" floppies, and MBMs.  I'll see if ebay coughs 
anything up from my saved search.  I sometimes get the impression that 
those don't work as well as they used to.
>
> Winter is my indoor project so when the winter weather moves in, let’s 
> see if we can do the call.  Interest in the bubbles has picked up 
> lately, so I think I will do an introductory video sometime before that.
Sounds good.  I might be moving some time this fall, but hopefully most 
of the inevitable chaos will be over reasonably quickly.

Thanks,

Denver