On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:35:40 +0000, David W Noon <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:21:58 -0600, Tom Marchant >([email protected]) wrote about "Paper tape >(was Re: Hidden Figures)" >> Well into the 1970's almost every mainframe shop used paper tape. >> >> What was it used for? > >In the mid 1970s I was working for a multi-national chemical company in >Melbourne, Australia. We had 2 paper tape readers and 1 paper tape >punch. They were used mostly for threatening young programmers who spoke >derisively about punched cards. ... :-) I was thinking of something far more ubiquitous. Every shop used them. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
