[Scott M. Baker] wants a paper tape punch for his retrocomputer collection. That’s fine with us, we don’t judge. In fact, these electromechanical peripherals from the past have a lot going for them, ...

[Scott M. Baker] wants a paper tape punch for his retrocomputer collection. That’s fine with us, we don’t judge. In fact, these electromechanical peripherals from the past have a lot going for them, ...

COMMENTARY--I started using computers in 1974, when I was still in high school. My first computer took up an entire room and yet had only five kilobytes of RAM. Punched paper tape was the main form of ...

Electronic Bill Writer. A transistorized electric typewriter that takes instruction from a punched paper tape and automatically types in all the repetitive material on business order forms was put on ...