Papertape and Mylar variant

From: McFadden, Mike <mmcfadden_at_cmh.edu>
Date: Tue May 30 08:44:26 2000

I seem to remember that back in the good old days (BITGOD) the cruise
missile programmers at McDonnell Douglas were required to punch a Mylar
version of a paper tape that was the guidance load for each missile and then
it was stored in a vault. I guess that you could decode the holes in the
tape to "prove" that the guidance load was correct. Somewhere I have a tape
fragment, not from a missile but from some game code. I think this tape was
not fan folded but rolled for storage.
Mike
Received on Tue May 30 2000 - 08:44:26 BST