Warp wrote:
>   Wasn't that the idea with punched tape? (Although punched tapes might
> actually predate punch cards...)

The only tape readers I ever saw in operation were mechanical. I imagine 
there would be the same differences there.

Now, the carriage control tape on the line printer was optical, but that was 
only a loop as long as a page of paper, so that didn't really count.

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