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 ...

(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 ...

And the idea of being able to build new instruments to create it, like this paper-tape programmable music box (YouTube, embedded below), is beyond impressive. The build video hints at more details ...