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byjfdavis668 ( 1414919 ) writes:
Though running that paper tape through the reader was a pain.
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byRitchCraft ( 6454710 ) writes:
Well, that's what you get for trying to use toilet paper instead of perforated paper tape when punching your bits.
bydsgrntlxmply ( 610492 ) writes:
I never got my legitimate copy of Altair Basic to load correctly from an ASR 33 tape reader. I did load it successfully from an ASR 35, but that was too large to borrow and take home. Eventually, the clever little OAE OP-80a optical reader kit would read the tape ok.
Not long after that, I worked on a commercial 8080 project where the executable was loaded from a large reel of paper tape, with up to 35 patch tapes loaded afterwards to obtain a runnable image.
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