After previously working out a suitable approach to create a period-correct paper tape reader for his tube-based, MC14500B processor-inspired computer, [David Lovett] over at the Usagi Electric far… ...

The paper tape looks like computer tape, but since it only has literal long and short notches, it has two distinct sides. When you learned one set of messages, you could flip the tape over and get ...

It was the computer that two kids, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, quit college for, in order to write a BASIC interpreter. The Altair 8800 was invented on December 19, 1974, so by 1979, it was almost ...

Herbert's interest is in machines from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, and he has encountered a lot of software stored on punched paper tape. Wound loosely, there's a good chance the code can still be ...

That said, damage to a tape doesn't necessarily mean it's a write-off. "If there are tears or mispunched holes, then if the data format is known, it is often fairly easy to reconstruct the original, ...