Phil:
Hard to say. As mentioned earlier, my last contact with paper tape
(other than 1403 printer control tape) was in1962 on my return to the
lower 48 and my next USAF assignment at SAC HQ in Omaha, NB, where I
remained in the USAF for another 2 years and stayed active in encrypted
teletype and voice communications. I don't recall any subsequent paper
tape use even at SAC HQ, although teletype communications were in
significant use there.
On going to work at IBM as a field engineer responsible for unit record
equipment repair, I saw no paper tape use. After transferring to the IBM
Data Systems Division in Poughkeepsie in 1966, I never saw paper tape
(except for 1403 printer control tape). Not that it might have been in
use elsewhere, but in the development lab in P'ok, NY, I never saw it
after leaving the radar site in Alaska (and even there, it was only with
teletypes). So while it may have been in use elsewhere with IBM gear, I
had no experience with it on any IBM equipment I ever came into contact
with. Punched cards, yes, that's a whole different story and that went
on for a long time thereafter.
Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation
On 01/17/2017 08:45 PM, 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?
...phsiii
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