Based on the technology of punched paper tape storage, the systems of the design were called " reperforators ".
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The compiler was available in a disk-resident version as well as on 8-channel punched paper tape or punched cards.
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Punched paper tape was one of the methods used to record the settings, much like film color timing systems of that era.
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The Astrocomp product produced punched paper tape or magnetic tape that contained both the text and codes needed to drive these devices.
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Input to the machine was performed in the form of punched paper tape, after experiments with CRT displays which showed the contents of registers.
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Drawings traced on a computer drawing board came out on punched paper tape, and data for animation effects ('FX') were typed onto punched cards.
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The automation of these processes required the processing of large quantities of punched paper tape such as those on which the enciphered messages were received.
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The only company to take up the challenge was Friden, an American company based in Oakland, CA which made accounting machines based on punched paper tape.
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Keyboard perforators were a development from Charles Wheatstone's perforator of 1858, a hand-operated device which produced a punched paper tape for use in automatic telegraph transmitters.
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Data input required intermediate processing via punched paper tape or punched card and separate input to a repetitive, labor-intensive task, removed from user control and error-prone.
