Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/05

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Subject: [Leica] What is this?
From: jbmmllug at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 13:01:05 -0500
References: <CAFfkXxv81Pq9Bkob3yf=Z_ArT6S=fgf1MEpnnd_GzAmGxxxNUA@mail.gmail.com>

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


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