Before his program was available, inexpensive hobbyist microcomputers generally were programmed either with a punched paper tape reader or by laboriously entering information by programming toggle switches.
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The so-called Harvard architecture of the Harvard Mark I, which was completed before EDVAC, also utilized a stored-program design using punched paper tape rather than electronic memory.
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The " program clock " is a timer that can be programmed with punched paper tape to ring bells or turn machines on and off at preprogrammed times.
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I'm making my wife a music box-using a $ 15 mechanism made by Kikkerland that reads music from a punched paper tape so you can put your own music on the thing.
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Typical programs transformed missile tracking data from missile tests, recorded to rolls of seven-hole Flexowriter punched paper tape, cartridges of magnetic wire, and reels of magnetic tape, into missile trajectory and performance data.
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The LINK program running on the H200 handled the OLA, copied punched cards or punched paper tape to magnetic tape, and copied records from magnetic tape to card punch or to line printer.
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Moreover, the Spacewar program became an integral part of a spreading hackers'culture as it was carried on punched paper tape to the dozen or so research centers and universities that had the early PDP minicomputer.
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The speed at which marks could be made on the paper was so high that hand signalling could not keep up with it, and so Bain devised a method of automatic signalling using punched paper tape.
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The IBM 046 Tape-to-Card Punch and the IBM 047 Tape-to-Card Printing Punch ( which was almost identical, but with the addition of a printing mechanism ) read data from punched paper tape and punched that data into cards.
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The IBM 610 was a very primitive machine, the programing of which was done with a plug board ( similar to the ones used for IBM accounting machines in the early 1950s ) and a punched paper tape.
