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Originally Posted by Xenophon
I'm not sure if it was transported on paper tape or on one of the (then) super-hi-tech DecTapes.
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Paper tape I would imagine - that was the standard even in the late 70s, when I was using the PDP-8. On that machine, to boot it you fed it a "boot loader" on paper tape. That loaded enough software to allow it to use its disk drives (we're talking 8" floppy disks here) from where it would load the operating system proper. When we did analysed the results of our physics experiments (the real reason the machine was there), we typed in the data on a teletype, the teletype punched a paper tape, and you fed the tape into the PDP's paper tape reader.