> On Jan 13, 2017, at 2:21 PM, Tom Marchant > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
I have been in the mainframe since 1969 and I don’t ever remember paper tape, whether it was for the 1401 or the 7070 or the 360. I must have missed it but I don’t think so. Ed > > -- > 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
