Paper tapes

[giza]

http://www.wps.com/projects/paper-tape/index.html

Just in case anyone was curious as to how paper tapes work. 50 years ago, this was pretty much how all computer data was stored.

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That or punch cards...

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

and if you really wanted to fsck with someone, you'd slip a card with EVERY HOLE punched into their stack. It turns into interesting Origami things when it goes thru the reader.

...or you could simply cut and shuffle them vegas-style.

Then you run.

Re: That or punch cards...

[cjthomas.livejournal.com]

and if you really wanted to fsck with someone, you'd slip a card with EVERY HOLE punched into their stack. It turns into interesting Origami things when it goes thru the reader.

I'd thought "lace cards" were more for jamming the card _punch_. But, I wasn't there, so I could certainly be mistaken =^.^=.