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r31 r37 2 2 <body> 3 3 4 <div style="float: left; width: 49%;"><!-- left column --> 5 6 <div class="box"> 7 <h2>Welcome to the Punched Paper Project</h2> 8 <p>The goal of this project 9 is to process obsolete storage media like <a href="paper-tape-project.htm">paper tapes</a> 10 and <a href="punch-card.htm">punch cards</a> with today's computers on 11 common platforms like GNU/Linux and <a href="../paper-tape/WINDOWS.txt">Microsoft Windows</a>. 12 </p> 13 </div> 14 15 <div class="box"> 16 <h2>Why?</h2> 17 <p>At first you should know that there's a german computer museum, 18 <a href="http://www.technikum29.de">technikum29</a>, which has very old computer 19 equipment that still runs. Many computers exclusively use paper tapes or punch cards 20 as storage media. So we've got lot's of devices around that want to be fed with data 21 and programs. Now if you can write your programs at today's PCs and simply 22 "print" them out on paper tapes, that's really practical. The same is for reading 23 in paper tapes into ordinary files on computers. By this way, you can send the 24 contents of paper tapes around the world via e-mail :-)</p> 25 </div> 26 27 <div class="box"> 28 <h2>Can I use it?</h2> 29 <p>Short answer: Yes, you can! Simply check out <a href="svn://technikum29.de/paper-tape-project" 30 >svn://technikum29.de/paper-tape-project</a>, compile the source code and run it.</p> 31 <p>Long answer: The quality differs from subproject to subproject, and there may 32 be programs that won't run on your platform or which are very buggy. Take in mind 33 that the drivers are – of course – specific to the devices, you can't 34 simply plug any paper tape device on your computer and think it would run with 35 our drivers.</p> 36 <p>Simply browse throught the documentation on this homepage and get an idea of 37 what this project is about.</p> 38 </div> 39 40 <div class="box"> 41 <h2>What's about the name?</h2> 42 <p>This project started as <b>Paper Tape Project</b> in 2008. In 43 2009, we got the idea to make punch card devices run at computers, 44 too. So I've renamed the whole project to <b>Punched Paper Project</b> 45 </div> 46 47 </div><!--left column--> 48 <div style="margin-left: 49%;"> 49 50 <center> 4 51 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickrsven/2385929362/" 5 title="Some Flickr link to paper tape art ;-)"> 6 <img src="../paper-tape/web-frontend/design/logo.png" 7 style="float:right; margin:0 0 20px 20px;" alt="Flying paper tape"> 52 title="Yes, there are some screenshots planned ;-)"> 53 <img src="../paper-tape/web-frontend/design/logo.png" alt="Flying paper tape"> 8 54 </a> 55 </center> 9 56 10 <p>Welcome to the <b>Punched Paper Project</b>. This is a small website 11 that informs you about the goals and progress of that project</p> 57 <div class="box"> 58 <h2>The Paper Tape Project</h2> 59 <p>The big final aim of the <b>Paper Tape Project</b> is to provide a complete 60 program suite for viewing, editing, comparing, punching and reading in 61 paper tapes on computers. The project has started with user space drivers 62 that make PCs capable to communicate with paper tape readers and writers 63 under various operating systems (GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows). Then I've 64 written visualizing tools, using Cairo and GTK+. Afterwards I've written 65 utilities to punch rendered text in various fonts on paper tapes. The final 66 project is written in C++ and gtkmm.</p> 67 </div> 12 68 13 <h2>In a nutshell</h2> 14 <p>The goal of this project is to handle various antiquated storage 15 media with today's computers. Such media are especially paper tapes 16 and punch cards. 17 <br/>This project started as <b>Paper Tape Project</b> with drivers 18 that make PCs capable to 19 communicate with paper tape readers and writers, so we can now read 20 and write paper tapes under various operating systems (GNU/Linux, 21 Micrsoft Windows). Then we got visualizing and operating tools for 22 paper tape data, as well as font/label generators for paper tapes. 23 <br/>In 2009, we got the idea to make punch card devices run at 24 computers, too. So I've renamed the whole project to <b>Punched 25 Paper Project</b>. 26 </p> 27 28 <h2>Who's running the project</h2> 29 <p>The Punched Paper Project is an <b>Open Source</b> project by a 30 german student. It's hosted on the servers of the german 31 <a href="http://www.technikum29.de">techniku29 museum of calculator, 32 computer and communication technology</a>. 33 </p> 34 35 <p>Feel free to contact me for any purpose via E-Mail at <em>sven</em> at 69 <div class="box"> 70 <h2>Who's running the project</h2> 71 <p>The Punched Paper Project is an <b>Open Source</b> project, hosted on the 72 servers of the german <a href="http://www.technikum29.de">techniku29 museum of 73 calculator, computer and communication technology</a>. There's currently one 74 active developer and the project is in <b>Development state</b> (not mature 75 at all).</p> 76 77 <p>Feel free to contact me for any purpose via E-Mail at <em>sven</em> at 36 78 <a href="http://www.technikum29.de" title="Link just for antispam" 37 79 >technikum29.de</a> or by using the form mailer at 38 80 the <a href="http://dev.technikum29.de/correspondence/">technikum29 39 81 foreign correspondence</a> (these mails go to the same target address)</p> 82 83 <p>See <a href="http://koeppel.homeunix.org">sven.köppel.org</a> for further details.</p> 84 </div> 40 85 86 </div><!--right column -->
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