Papertape and Mylar variant

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Tue May 30 13:17:08 2000

> 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.

Right-o... teletypes with the reader/punch used rolls of paper tape.
I have a copy of DEC Monopoly on papertape that I punched myself, as
well as a copy of Intel's INTERP-80 (8080a simulator) and a Star Trek
game called BIGMES (from an HP 2000).

At IU, we had a CDC6600 with an online highspeed punch, and I have
a couple of tapes I punched on that, as well as what was left on the
roll.

I'm not sure if the fanfold method came about for ease of
mailing or not; eventually, there were readers available that
had "bins" instead of reels, and you could load either fanfold
or roll tape in the bins.

-doug q
Received on Tue May 30 2000 - 13:17:08 BST