First time I saw paper tape was in school, Vo-Tech, UNIVAC system in 1974-75, once in the real world starting @ Sears in 1977 never saw paper tape again and not since, lots of cards no paper tape .
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Marchant" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 2:21:58 PM Subject: Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures) On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:56:57 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape >About 1974-75, I lived with my dad, manager of a Kroger store. At >night he would insert various strips of punch film into a reader to >report the store's daily transactions. Well into the 1970's almost every mainframe shop used paper tape. What was it used for? -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
