On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, Chuck Guzis wrote:
For a time, cassette decks were used as a substitute for punched paper tape in the commercial embroidery business They were supplanted by floppy drive boxes, eventually (e.g. Barudan).
And paper tape is still used in that business (all kind of NC businesses). We got the request to copy a severly worn out tape some time ago, and they were very happy that we could do that with no problems :-)
Christian
