On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:15:38 +0000, Vince Coen wrote: >If no where else it was on the printers for channel control.
Yep. That's what I was thinking of. I didn't say that it was used for I/O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriage_control_tape >> From: "Tom Marchant" <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 2:21:58 PM >> Subject: Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures) >> >> 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
