Ahhhhh paper tape!  The goto for my high school programming class.  We also had a mylar tape with the PDP11 operating system on it.  I know, because I blew the thing up several times and it had to be reloaded... that did NOT make me popular with the math teacher.

On 11/26/2019 9:40 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
Yep: Still have quite a stack of them for notes, bookmarks, the
occasional millennial that has no idea about...... (won't fill in list
since it's too long to fit in the allowable email space)
I sometimes give talks at local schools about our industry and I take
several storage media with me to demonstrate the changes. Cards and Paper
tape are two of them.



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