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Originally Posted by Roger Parkinson
Paper tape. I always bring up paper tape when people mention punch cards. I did use punch cards, but one of the machines I worked on (in fact the first one that I could claim some actual professional association with) used paper tape. Ghastly stuff.
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Actually, I used the 026 in University. Then I went to work for DEC and got introduced to paper tapes. When I taught the PDP-8 Programming course, we would start loading the Focal interpreter with the ASR-33 teletype reader and then go out to lunch because it took at least 20 minutes to load. The High-Speed reader was a great advance, but the DF32 disk with 32000 word capacity was sheer heaven.