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]

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