13 Aug
2004
13 Aug
'04
8:14 a.m.
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, David V. Corbin wrote:
You missed the important part of using a newspaper
press as a papertape
reader...It is MUCH wider than a single byte.
No revising the calculations to use the actual roll sizee of a commercial
press, and using 10 bytes / sq in [arrogant american here] we start to see
some interesting numbers for capacity and speed....
Not neaarly as fast as other storage media still...but you get the advantage
that it is readable by a human [yes I have punched and read PDP-8 BIN loader
tapes by hand!]. Very fault tolerant [wish I could find a pack of the old
adhexive paper table patches]. Actually no technology is needed to read it.
Fault tolerant? Hanging chad?