Anyone ever play with fanfold paper tape? I did, between school and university. I guess you'd call it a gap year job, nowadays. :-)
Anyhow, lots of fun to be had with diskette box lids being used to catch the paper tape as it passed through the reader. If it missed the box the stuff arced across the room. We used it to take compiled object code produced by a Data General Nova / Eclipse dualed pair and load it into one of the Membrain automatic tester rigs. (I got myself a job as a programmer for Membrain in Ferndown, Dorset.) Happy times Sent from my iPad > On 13 Jan 2017, at 21:33, Tom Marchant <0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >> On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:35:40 +0000, David W Noon <david.w.n...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:21:58 -0600, Tom Marchant >> (0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu) wrote about "Paper tape >> (was Re: Hidden Figures)" > >>> Well into the 1970's almost every mainframe shop used paper tape. >>> >>> What was it used for? >> >> In the mid 1970s I was working for a multi-national chemical company in >> Melbourne, Australia. We had 2 paper tape readers and 1 paper tape >> punch. They were used mostly for threatening young programmers who spoke >> derisively about punched cards. ... :-) > > I was thinking of something far more ubiquitous. Every shop used them. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
