The tour begins with early storage media such as IBM punch cards, and then walks us through time to the paper tape, vacuum tubes ... and even the Apollo Guidance Computer. Each type is examined ...

[Scott] paid $200, so he had some work to do to make the unit operational. Paper tape had a few varieties. For computer work, you usually had a tape that could hold eight holes across, one for ...

(1) A slow, low-capacity, sequential storage medium used on earlier computing and communications devices. Paper tape holds data as patterns of punched holes. (2) A paper roll printed by a ...