(August 27, 2023 at 11:11 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: You haven’t seen tape drive until you’ve seen a paper tape drive.
Our high school computer club had a paper tape drive on a teletype that communicated at around 45 baud. Funny thing - I never once wanted one of those for home use.
Most egregiously silly use of paper tape was in college, when someone typed a phrase on tape (possibly "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog") several times, until the tape was long enough to feed back into the tape reader, and then let it run till the tape was long enough to throw out the second-floor window and tie to the bumper of a professor's car.