>"with a small stepper or DC motor to pull the tape through."
>
>You don't need a stepper for this.  Use the sprocket hole from
>the paper tape as the sensor for the data bits from the tape
>and just pull the tape along.

Yeah, I was expecting to use the sprocket holes for clocking, it was more a 
case of using a small stepper (like might be recovered from an old floppy 
drive) may be easier that sourcing a suitable DC motor. 

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