[PLUG] Terabyte paper tape

[Daniel Ortiz]

If it is desired or decided to try to replicate the experience of paper
tape coding then theoretically Google's teachable machine could be one
component used to accomplish that:
https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:02 AM Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

> You can still get the clack-clack-ding-ding without the hardware:
>
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd5oomwEBb0
>
> but it's hard to replicate the smell of paper tape.
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 4:08 AM Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
> >
> > "My first computer" was a DEC PDP8 at Tektronix, which I
> > was allowed to use at age 16 in 1969.  The programming was
> > language was FOCAL.  No disk drive - I/O was an ASR-33
> > teletype, and a "high speed" 60 character-per-second paper
> > tape reader.
> >
> > I compare that to my new 80 gram, 1 Terabyte SATA3 solid
> > state drive.  A terabyte of paper tape would fill a cube
> > 20 meters on a side, weigh more than 10,000 metric tonnes,
> > and take 530 years to read.
> >
> > Not all was bad back then.  The lawns we kids were told
> > to get off of were larger.
> >
> > Keith
> >
> > --
> > Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com
>