On 2017-01-17 18:45, Phil Smith wrote:
> Tom Marchant wrote:
>> Well into the 1970's almost every mainframe shop used paper tape.
> 
> Huh. We had a keypunch in the house in 1965, and I started hanging out in the 
> computer room at UofW in 1971. I've never seen paper tape in use, only at the 
> Computer History Museum. Maybe I was just lucky?
> 
Regardless, they're not mutually exclusive.

-- gil

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