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Strictly speaking: no.
"paper tape" was deprecated, and "punch tape" given as the correct terminology, by FIPS 11-2 a.k.a. ANSI X3/TR-1-82 in 1982. In the 1977 edition of the ANSI Dictionary, it was "perforated tape".
"punch tape" can be found in some 1960s literature and was formal then. If, say, you look at issue 100–16 (June 1967) of the U.S.A. Air Force Manual, in particular the glossary of terms that is attachment 2, you'll find "punch tape", and an explanation that it was a subset of "paper tape" since paper tape could be printed on, carbonized, or chemically treated, not just perforated.
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/103062201
Plus: I'm not aware of any computer in the home computer era that had punch tape. It was already in the museum item category even back then. Home computers had *compact cassette* magtapes. (-:
Some more pictures from the first day of the #VCFe 24 in #Munich:
A #punchtape reader (and puncher).
A #Mega65 running #ManiacMansion based on IIRC the Amiga graphics and the C64 sound of the game. I by chance wore the appropriate t-shirt, albeit in the German localization.
And I'm still not sure after which related game -- Maniac Mansion or Day of The Tentacle -- the t-shirt is actually modeled after as the verbs don't match as well as I expected.
When starting machine translation, we assumed ASCII encoding, but discovered a different system. Seeking help on social media, our followers cracked the code in under 24 hours, revealing the use of an IBM Supertyper 8500 punch and BCDIC. 🕵️♂️🔍 Thanks to them, we found the decoding table in the IBM 1620 computer manual. 🙌🔠
#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #softwareheritage #digitalheritage #nostalgia #punchtape #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing
«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
#punchedtape #punchtape
@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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