Parades in New York. Called Ticker Tape. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Tom Marchant > Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 12:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures) > > On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:56:57 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: > > >https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https- > 3A__en.wikipedia.org_w > >iki_Punched- > 5Ftape&d=DgIFaQ&c=C3yme8gMkxg_ihJNXS06ZyWk4EJm8LdrrvxQb-Je7 > >sw&r=u9g8rUevBoyCPAdo5sWE9w&m=HjszhDuu-mtwbfAgGo8df0rkg- > 8gtAsoAib2IrgRB > >6E&s=S5587Pe4jItOcn-dNPkEk0jiyRrrA5qYMV70dPE2MqI&e= > >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
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