On 9/2/2016 1:13 PM, John Kasunich wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016, at 07:29 AM, Bruce Layne wrote: >> >> On 08/31/2016 10:22 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote: >>> Surprising that just for the fun of doing it, someone hasn't built a >>> punched tape reader for a 3D printer. >> >> Have you SEEN 10MB of paper tape?!? :-o >> >> The bits on paper tape are about .1" in diameter. That's a lot of paper >> tape. > 15.8 miles of paper actually. > > The spool would be over 35 inches in diameter and weigh 115 lbs. > Yet it is hardly a blip on an $8 - 32 gig stick drive. The old days of 360K floppies and those newfangled hi-capacity 720 K and 1.44 meg floppies seem so long ago.... You could stick a 1.44 meg floppy in your pocket! That was crazy! ....
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