You can still get the clack-clack-ding-ding without the hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd5oomwEBb0
but it's hard to replicate the smell of paper tape. On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 4:08 AM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > "My first computer" was a DEC PDP8 at Tektronix, which I > was allowed to use at age 16 in 1969. The programming was > language was FOCAL. No disk drive - I/O was an ASR-33 > teletype, and a "high speed" 60 character-per-second paper > tape reader. > > I compare that to my new 80 gram, 1 Terabyte SATA3 solid > state drive. A terabyte of paper tape would fill a cube > 20 meters on a side, weigh more than 10,000 metric tonnes, > and take 530 years to read. > > Not all was bad back then. The lawns we kids were told > to get off of were larger. > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
