[email protected] (Dave Wade) writes:
> High Speed card readers read all columns of the card at the same time,
> so they have 80 sensors, and read the card row-by-row, allowing much
> faster reading. There is no reel of tape that has inertia that has to
> be controlled on a stop.
> A card deck is easy to edit, we used to have a hand punch for minor JCL 
> corrections.
> A damaged card can often be recovered by manual copying. 

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#37 Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures)
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#38 Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures)

because assemblies took so long, as undergraduate, I got quite adept at
dup'ing columns in (12-2-9) TXT cards in 026 keypunch and multi-punching
patches.

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