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    Punched tape or perforated paper tape is a form of data storage device that consists of a long strip of paper through which small holes are punched. It...
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    leaf Punched card Punched tape Punching Xaver Frühbeis (14 November 2000), Renate von Walter (ed.), Geburtstag des Lochers [Birthday of the Punch] (RTF)...
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    Chad (paper) (category Punched card)
    a paper, card or similar synthetic materials, such as computer punched tape or punched cards. The word "chad" has been used both as a mass noun (as in...
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    A punched card (also punch card or punched-card) is a piece of card stock that stores digital data using punched holes. Punched cards were once common...
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    Ticker tape was also incorporated into some of the weaver Dorothy Liebes' unusual art textiles. Commodity tick Don't fight the tape Punched tape Stock...
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    enough to spur the development of automated systems—teleprinters and punched tape transmission. These systems led to new telegraph codes, starting with...
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    was freely programmable via punched tape and a punched tape reader. There was a clear separation between the punched tape reader, the control unit for...
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  • plastic film Magnetic tape data storage, uses digital recording on magnetic tape to store digital information Punched tape or paper tape, a long strip of paper...
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    built-in eight-hole punched tape reader and tape punch; Model 33 KSR (Keyboard Send and Receive), which lacks the paper tape reader and punch; Model 33 RO (Receive...
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    which allowed an operator to punch a paper tape, and a tape transmitter for sending the message from the punched tape. At the receiving end of the line...
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  • optical discs, floppy disks, and magnetic tape), and early computer storage methods such as punched tape and cards. Non-volatile memory is typically...
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    punching holes in the card, it was now a "punched card." For simplicity, this article will use the term punched card to refer to either. Often programmers...
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    from punched paper tape and punched that data into cards. The IBM 063 Card-Controlled Tape Punch read punched cards, punching that data into paper tape. The...
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    ordinary instructions, 6 ms for multiplication. Input was via five-hole punched tape, and output was via a teleprinter. Initially, registers were limited...
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    on an incoming channel are recorded in the form of perforated tape, this punched tape then being either fed directly and automatically into an outgoing...
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    Keypunch (redirect from Key-to-tape)
    gang punch, the pantograph punch, and the stamp. The term was also used for similar machines used by humans to transcribe data onto punched tape media...
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  • twenty-first century. Early electronic computers such as Colossus made use of punched tape, a long strip of paper on which data was represented by a series of holes...
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    or 8-channel paper tape reader/punches, could have several auxiliary paper tape units attached, and could also attach to IBM punched card equipment. Expensive...
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  • next line.[citation needed] On punched tape, the character is represented with no holes at all, so a new unpunched tape is initially filled with null characters...
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    uses fanfold punched paper tape as its primary storage medium. Unlike punched card decks, which could be sorted and re-ordered, paper tape is tedious to...
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  • on punched tape, since any character could be changed to all ones by punching holes everywhere. If a character was punched erroneously, punching out...
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    Neumann, Wilkes and his team constructed EDSAC. A filing cabinet of punched tape held the subroutine library for this computer. Programs for EDSAC consisted...
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  • for controlling machines. In 1846, telegrams could be prerecorded on punched tape and rapidly transmitted using Alexander Bain's automatic telegraph. Several...
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    Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic storage made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film. It was developed in Germany...
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    Perforation (redirect from Needle punch)
    to allow air to escape while they are being filled. Film perforations Punched tape Wikimedia Commons has media related to Perforations. Todd, Robert H.;...
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    operator used a keyboard perforator to punch a paper tape and then a transmitter to send the message from the punched tape. At the receiving end of the line...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Display device Expansion card Punched card input/output Punched tape Video game accessory Laplante, Philip A. (2000). Dictionary...
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  • obsolete) Disk packs (now obsolete) Magnetic tapes Paper data storage, e.g. punched cards, punched tapes (now obsolete) Examples of removable media that...
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    One-time pad (redirect from One-time tape)
    message with a key read from a punched tape. In its original form, Vernam's system was vulnerable because the key tape was a loop, which was reused whenever...
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    Department. The PDP-1 was to complement the older TX-0, and like it had a punched tape reader and writer, and additionally accepted input from a panel of switches...
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