punching paper tape

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Fri Mar 26 18:01:38 CDT 2021


On 3/26/21 2:58 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:

> OK thanks for that. I just had a browse and read that "Whirlwind used the same paper tape format that was popular with Teletype machines" so
> I gather it's nothing special after all.
> 

the best picture i have at hand of what a ww tape looks like is on the right of
http://bitsavers.org/bits/MIT/whirlwind/X4222.2008_Whirlwind_ptp/pictures/start_of_sort_20180724/8.JPG

you can see it is narrower by one punch than a normal 8-channel tape



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