You Ain't Gonna Need It! Manual Tape Punch
You Ain't Gonna Need It! Manual Tape Punch
🔎🧵 A photo of the first attempt at reading punched tape - manually unwinding it captured in the form of a video. The software (still) doesn't support this (you have to export it as images), but it wouldn't be difficult to implement.
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«Непрерывное обновление производства - задача каждого предприятия!»
Худ.: Махоткин Александр Михайлович. 1986 г.
Строго говоря, на Западе #перфолента в 86 году ещё кое-где использовалась, но уже на последнем издыхании, рулили дискеты и плёнка. А в #СССР только «обновление» шло
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@carnage4life That's just a function of current digital storage media. Digitalization itself has nothing to do with it.
Punched paper/cardboard cards or tape would be able to survive for centuries with adequate storage just fine.
Building an optical reader for such is also what I'd consider a first-year electronics project.
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