Tape panel

The Tape panel draws the tape signal around the place the tape is at. The red vertical line is the current position: on its left is the signal that has played, on its right what comes next. The picture covers about two milliseconds of tape at the machine’s speed. In the picture Exolon is loading, with fast loading off.

Field	What it shows
Pos	the number of the pulse in the current block; -- while the tape is stopped
Current	how much of the current pulse is left; empty while the tape is stopped
State	play, rec or stop
Tape in	the level the tape plays into the machine’s EAR input
Tape out	the bit the machine sends to the tape: the bar is full while it is 1

Use it while you step through a loader, to see which pulse it is reading and what comes next. The tape itself is controlled from the Tape Player (see Tapes).