7 Jul
2005
7 Jul
'05
11:15 a.m.
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:10:45AM +0100, Keith Watson wrote:
Do you remember the metallic 'paper' tape that was used for things like boot routines and compilers etc.? Used to be coloured on one side (red, green, blue) and silver or gold on the other. Made great Christmas decorations.
Yes, though DEC didn't seem to use that much, we did use it later on our 8080 development systems. I well remember manually 'editing' paper tape with a punch and also cutting and sticking lengths to patch programs etc.
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Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
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