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[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
>
>On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>> >>>>> "William" == William Donzelli <aw288 at osfn.org> writes:
>>
>>  William> .... Some of the things were
>>  William> pretty cool - a 400 cps (!) paper tape punch, ...
>>
>> Wow.  I've love to see one of those.  The fastest I have seen was, I
>> think, a 120 cps punch.  Listening to one of those running at full
>> speed is pretty impressive.
>>
>> Paper tape readers can go much faster (I've seen 2000 cps) but those
>> are optical readers, so the job is far easier.
>
>I don't suppose anyone ever manufactured a laser-based paper tape punch?
>Is that even feasible?
>

Hi
 Sure, it could be done. The only reason it hasn't
been done was that the medium was obsolete by the
time the LASERs were ready.
 I used to have fun with a 20W CO2 LASER. I could
control it well enough to remove 6 or 7 layers of
paper. Each time I'd cut a little deeper. It would
make a pop sound and some of the paper would just
be disappear :)
Dwight