Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote: > http://sonc-hegr.tumblr.com/post/44630528204 > Paper tape. Offline storage for computers - a predecessor to the floppy disk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape There were standalone punchers and readers (some really fancy and shockingly fast), I'm pretty sure there was fancy longer-lasting mylar-backed tape... but the bread-and-butter way I knew of to use paper tape was via the good ol' Teletype ASR-33: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33