>>> Are you talking about magnetic tape or paper tape?
>> HAHAHAHA!
>>
>> Good god man, magnetic! I've never *seen* paper tape, except in a museum...
> 
> Just asking! You have a wide range of interests.

You're definitely showing your age. ;-) Paper tapes? Good Lord...

> The chattering is probably the tensioning system and the tape drive starting and
> stopping as the data is read.

Right. And it's so loud because the tape itself makes a good speaker cone?

(FWIW, the old tape system was pretty silent. This new one is quite noisey.)

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