Mainframe printers originally had a Carriage control tape, with 12 channels ( 1 through 9 and A through C ) that can be assigned a fixed position on the page by punching a hole, allowing the printer to skip a variable distance down the page to a fixed location.
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"Nonpertinent " parts from the air traffic control tapes were not released by the Federal Aviation Administration because, according to a spokeswoman, they contained " expressions of human suffering " that were not relevant to the investigation, and were therefore not being publicized " out of respect and compassion for surviving family members ."
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It would have been necessary to deploy them by a robotic mission to make them part of the hoax, just like it would have ben necessary to have a remote control tape recorder on board an unmanned spacecraft which orbited and landed on the moon, to fool earth based radiotelescopes, with carefully scripted conversations between mission control and the tape recorder.
