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

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