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Date:      19 May 2022 20:49:51 -0000
From:      "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tape, was Single User
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According to Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>:
>El día jueves, mayo 19, 2022 a las 01:43:09p. m. -0400, Valeri Galtsev escribió:
>
>> I've seen these paper punch tapes too. Don't have them in my museum, just 80
>> column punch cards. and 1/2 inch bobbin of tape. No bobbin tape drive
>> though...
>
>I own such a tape too from my work in the Computer Center of the
>University Karl Marx in Leipzig, see here:
>
>http://www.unixarea.de/simage20170404_071712335.jpg

The thing in the picture isn't paper tape, it's a 1/2" magnetic tape.
It looks relatively new, 1970s rather than 1950s so it is likely
recorded 9 bits across (8 plus parity) at a density of 1600 or 6250 BPI.

Here's some 8 bit paper tape:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Punched_paper_tape_roll.jpg

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