LOL yes today's youth won't know what punched paper tape storage was used for. We also used it with punched cards back in the heyday of mainframe computers. Most will remember punched paper tape being used in teletype machines, but in fact it was already used as far back as 1725 for controlling looms, and from 1842 for automated pianos.
So whilst it is quite true many won't have a need for this, it is nice to know that we can now read in punched paper tape from a USB interface.
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Paper Tape Reader Self-calibrates, Speaks USB#
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Input devices consisting of optical readers for punched paper tape have been around since the earliest days of computing, so why stop now? [Jürgen]’s Paper Tape Reader project connects to any…
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