>Standard paper tape stores 10 characters/inch. Each row of holes across
>the tape is an 8-bit character, with a small 'sprocket' hole which is
>either used to drag the tape through the reader, or to provide a strobe
>pulse.
Is that enough to actually do some decent stuff with the PDP-8.
>A full reel of tape was 1000' I think. That's about 100K of data (to give
>an order of magnitude). A full box of fanfold tape would be about the same.
I also have some reels of film-like tape. What's the proper name for it?
How does it compare to the paper tape?
Thanks.
Tom Owad
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Received on Sat Jul 18 1998 - 17:21:31 BST