On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 10:25 -0600, Robin Laing wrote: > It was nice to see the TTY there. I remember having a Star Trek > program on paper tape. Let it roll down the outside of the residence > building at school. It was over 10 stories long. > > We were the lucky ones in the second year. We had a TI terminal that > had a cassette tape in it. No more punch cards or paper tape for > us. :) I would have thought paper tape to be more reliable than plastic tape. No stretching, no striction, reversable and relocatable for a re-read, repairable by your engineers when someone breaks it, duplicatable through various direct methods without degradation of data. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
