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What (who) is paper tape - definition

FORM OF DATA STORAGE

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paper tape

¦ noun paper in the form of a long, narrow strip with holes punched in it, used in older computer systems for conveying data or instructions.

paper tape

<hardware, history> Punched paper tape. An early input/output and storage medium borrowed from telegraph and teletype systems. Data entered at the keyboard of the teletype could be directed to a perforator or punch which punched a pattern of holes across the width of a paper tape to represent the characters typed. The paper tape could be read by a tape reader feeding the computer. Computer output could be similarly punched onto tape and printed off-line. As well as storage of the program and data, use of paper tape enabled batch processing. The first units had five data hole positions plus a sprocket hole (for the driving wheel) across the width of the tape. These used commercial telegraph code (ITA2 also known as Murray), Baudot code, or proprietary codes such as Elliott which were more programmer-friendly. Later systems had eight data holes and used ASCII coding. (2003-12-02)

punched tape

¦ noun a paper tape perforated according to a code, formerly used for conveying instructions or data to a data processor.

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Punched tape

Punched tape or perforated paper tape is a form of data storage that consists of a long strip of paper in which holes are punched. It developed from and was subsequently used alongside punched cards, differing in that the tape is continuous.

Punched cards, and chains of punched cards, were used for control of looms in the 18th century. Use for telegraphy systems started in 1842. Punched tape was used throughout the 19th and for much of the 20th centuries for programmable looms, teleprinter communication, for input to computers of the 1950s and 1960s, and later as a storage medium for minicomputers and CNC machine tools. During the Second World War, high-speed punched tape systems using optical readout methods were used in code breaking systems. Punched tape was used to transmit data for manufacture of read-only memory chips.

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Examples of use of paper tape

1. Printers that spool out a thin paper tape similar to an ATM receipt were added to touch–screen machines.

2. Each message intercepted by an Allied listening station was converted into paper tape punched with holes representing written characters.

3. Next month, the U.S. billionaire programmer will carry a paper–tape memento from that first computer and put his faith in the heirs to that Soviet–era technology when he blasts into space aboard a Soyuz rocket to become the world‘s fifth space tourist.

4. The PKDbot was far less sophisticated than the robots Dick imagined in his work – for example, the android in The Electric Ant, who believes he is human until hospital doctors tell him otherwise. (Inside his chest he finds moving reels of punched paper tape; when he reconfigures the holes, reality shifts.) But it was certainly more automatous than John Edward Yancy, the beloved, fake, mind–controlling planetary guru used to create a peaceful totalitarian society in The Mold of Yancy (1'55). Yancy rolls on "confident, amiable, undisturbed" until it freezes, fresh out of programmed words and gestures.