Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:02:13 +0200, Eero Ahonen
> <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
>
> >Stephen wrote:
> >> paper tape?
> >
> >Are these the thingies with holes in them, besides with holy cards?
> >
>
> Round holes for the tape and rectangular ones for the cards. As if you didn't
> know ;)
> --
>
> Regards
>      Stephen

IBM also made a 96 column card with round holes for their system/3 back in the
70's

I wrote a driver for the IBM 1017 paper tape reader on an ibm/370 system, also
in the 70's.  The reader was already obsolete, so IBM didn't support it on our
system.  It was kind of fun to write the code, but overall it turned out to be
a PITA.

Isaac.

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