On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 13:56:57 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape >About 1974-75, I lived with my dad, manager of a Kroger store. At >night he would insert various strips of punch film into a reader to >report the store's daily transactions.
Well into the 1970's almost every mainframe shop used paper tape. What was it used for? -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN