I seem to remember that back in the good old days (BITGOD) the cruise
missile programmers at McDonnell Douglas were required to punch a Mylar
version of a paper tape that was the guidance load for each missile and then
it was stored in a vault.  I guess that you could decode the holes in the
tape to "prove" that the guidance load was correct.  Somewhere I have a tape
fragment, not from a missile but from some game code.  I think this tape was
not fan folded but rolled for storage.
Mike
    
    
    
 
                    
                    
                        
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