Punch Cards.

[Tim]

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 10:25 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> It was nice to see the TTY there.  I remember having a Star Trek
> program on paper tape.  Let it roll down the outside of the residence
> building at school.  It was over 10 stories long.
> 
> We were the lucky ones in the second year.  We had a TI terminal that 
> had a cassette tape in it.  No more punch cards or paper tape for
> us.  :) 

I would have thought paper tape to be more reliable than plastic tape.
No stretching, no striction, reversable and relocatable for a re-read,
repairable by your engineers when someone breaks it, duplicatable
through various direct methods without degradation of data.

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