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| 7 | <h2>Welcome to the Punched Paper Project</h2> |
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| 8 | <p>The goal of this project |
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| 9 | is to process obsolete storage media like <a href="paper-tape-project.htm">paper tapes</a> |
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| 10 | and <a href="punch-card.htm">punch cards</a> with today's computers on |
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| 11 | common platforms like GNU/Linux and <a href="../paper-tape/WINDOWS.txt">Microsoft Windows</a>. |
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| 12 | </p> |
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| 13 | </div> |
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| 15 | <div class="box"> |
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| 16 | <h2>Why?</h2> |
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| 17 | <p>At first you should know that there's a german computer museum, |
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| 18 | <a href="http://www.technikum29.de">technikum29</a>, which has very old computer |
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| 19 | equipment that still runs. Many computers exclusively use paper tapes or punch cards |
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| 20 | as storage media. So we've got lot's of devices around that want to be fed with data |
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| 21 | and programs. Now if you can write your programs at today's PCs and simply |
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| 22 | "print" them out on paper tapes, that's really practical. The same is for reading |
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| 23 | in paper tapes into ordinary files on computers. By this way, you can send the |
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| 24 | contents of paper tapes around the world via e-mail :-)</p> |
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| 25 | </div> |
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| 27 | <div class="box"> |
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| 28 | <h2>Can I use it?</h2> |
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| 29 | <p>Short answer: Yes, you can! Simply check out <a href="svn://technikum29.de/paper-tape-project" |
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| 30 | >svn://technikum29.de/paper-tape-project</a>, compile the source code and run it.</p> |
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| 31 | <p>Long answer: The quality differs from subproject to subproject, and there may |
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| 32 | be programs that won't run on your platform or which are very buggy. Take in mind |
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| 33 | that the drivers are – of course – specific to the devices, you can't |
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| 34 | simply plug any paper tape device on your computer and think it would run with |
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| 35 | our drivers.</p> |
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| 36 | <p>Simply browse throught the documentation on this homepage and get an idea of |
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| 37 | what this project is about.</p> |
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| 38 | </div> |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | <div class="box"> |
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| 41 | <h2>What's about the name?</h2> |
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| 42 | <p>This project started as <b>Paper Tape Project</b> in 2008. In |
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| 43 | 2009, we got the idea to make punch card devices run at computers, |
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| 44 | too. So I've renamed the whole project to <b>Punched Paper Project</b> |
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| 45 | </div> |
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| 48 | <div style="margin-left: 49%;"> |
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| 49 | |
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| 50 | <center> |
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| 51 | <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickrsven/2385929362/" |
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| 52 | title="Yes, there are some screenshots planned ;-)"> |
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| 53 | <img src="../paper-tape/web-frontend/design/logo.png" alt="Flying paper tape"> |
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| 54 | </a> |
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| 55 | </center> |
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| 56 | |
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| 57 | <div class="box"> |
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| 58 | <h2>The Paper Tape Project</h2> |
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| 59 | <p>The big final aim of the <b>Paper Tape Project</b> is to provide a complete |
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| 60 | program suite for viewing, editing, comparing, punching and reading in |
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| 61 | paper tapes on computers. The project has started with user space drivers |
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| 62 | that make PCs capable to communicate with paper tape readers and writers |
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| 63 | under various operating systems (GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows). Then I've |
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| 64 | written visualizing tools, using Cairo and GTK+. Afterwards I've written |
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| 65 | utilities to punch rendered text in various fonts on paper tapes. The final |
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| 66 | project is written in C++ and gtkmm.</p> |
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| 67 | </div> |
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| 68 | |
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| 69 | <div class="box"> |
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| 70 | <h2>Who's running the project</h2> |
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| 71 | <p>The Punched Paper Project is an <b>Open Source</b> project, hosted on the |
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| 72 | servers of the german <a href="http://www.technikum29.de">techniku29 museum of |
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| 73 | calculator, computer and communication technology</a>. There's currently one |
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| 74 | active developer and the project is in <b>Development state</b> (not mature |
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| 75 | at all).</p> |
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| 76 | |
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| 77 | <p>Feel free to contact me for any purpose via E-Mail at <em>sven</em> at |
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| 78 | <a href="http://www.technikum29.de" title="Link just for antispam" |
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| 79 | >technikum29.de</a> or by using the form mailer at |
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| 80 | the <a href="http://dev.technikum29.de/correspondence/">technikum29 |
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| 81 | foreign correspondence</a> (these mails go to the same target address)</p> |
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| 82 | |
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| 83 | <p>See <a href="http://koeppel.homeunix.org">sven.köppel.org</a> for further details.</p> |
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| 84 | </div> |
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| 85 | |
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| 86 | </div><!--right column --> |
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