When new advertising meets old computers

Target put a multipage color catalog in last Sunday's paper. The catalog combines full-page photos of people using outdoor toys (bicycles, snorkels, tents, etc.) with photos of the toys against garish solid-color backgrounds. Although the effect is rather unsettling (Life magazine meets Wired?) the strangest part is the image of *six-hole paper tape* that marches across the middles of all the pages. Obviously old computers have some sort of hold on our culture, though it could just be as an abstract design cliche. I haven't yet decoded the tape (if it says anyhthing at all). Luckily I just got _Computers and Typesetting_ which covers plenty of obscure typesetting codes (which is the only area I know of in which six-hole tape ever became popular). For non-US people: Target is a large "buy everything here" store, fancier than K Mart or Wal-Mart but still rather cheap. My mom sarcastically called it "Tar-ZHAY", as in the French pronounciation, for a while. :) -- Derek