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Author Bruker Instruments Inc.

Date of creation 1846 - 1980s

Punched Paper Tape

A continuous strip of paper tape encoding data as a sequence of punched holes, read row by row as it fed through a machine. Used from early Morse code transmission through to low-cost data and program storage for minicomputers and computer-aided manufacturing equipment. This example, B37-60713, is a dual display overlay to QPDFT from Bruker Instruments Inc.

Punched Paper Tape

Museum of Obsolete Media, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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