Paper Tape (was: Let's develop an open-source media archive standard )

>> -----Original Message----- >> From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org >> [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin >> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 4:15 PM >> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts >> Subject: RE: Paper Tape (was: Let's develop an open-source >> media archive standard ) >> >> 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? >>