> On Jan 16, 2017, at 11:07 PM, retired mainframer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > While an individual's experience may be typical, it is seldom exhaustive. > > We had a paper tape punch on our system well past 1977. I first used it in > 1973 on a 370/155 but I know it was transferred from an older system and > survived several CPU upgrades. The corresponding paper tape readers were > attached to IBM 4PI systems that were installed on a fleet of aircraft. The > readers were removed from the aircraft over an extended period sometime > starting in 1984 after years of very infrequent use, if at all. I expect the > punch remained available till the last reader was finally removed. > > We finally gave up on the black paper tape and started using green Mylar tape > which was borderline indestructible, though subject to crinkling. The used > tape was saved for Christmas decorations.
I am guessing this was the military, right? I was in the military for 3 years and never saw one and we had 360’s. Although I was in Germany the army seemed to have a UNIVAC presence and thank god no paper tape. Ed > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Edward Gould >> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 6:12 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures) >> Gil: >> That is not how I remember it at all. The Carriage tape on a 1403/3211(?) >> was just for that >> machine. i.e. skip to channel x >> As I have said before I do not ever remember seeing any IBM device or >> computer that had a >> paper tape reader/writer. >> This goes back to the 360’s . I just got off the phone with a friend and he >> does not >> remember it for the 14xx either. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
