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Originally Posted by Quoth
For a frightening scary moment I thought you meant paper tape.
That does work for read only or erase random access with paper tape.
There was paper tape on computers (and even to send messages from keyboard 20 years earlier) from the 1940s. Machine tools still were using paper tape after floppy drives came out.
Was it a 1/2" wide magnetic tape on a reel to reel machine. For cartridges, maybe Travan was worst. No, The stringy microdrive on the Sinclair QL was worst.
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I remember using paper tape to load the boot loaded for the tape that you then loaded from there.