Building a paper tape reader by itself isn’t super complicated: you need a source of light, some photoreceptors behind the tape to register the presence of holes and some way to pull the tape through ...

This tool converts ASCII text, including control codes, into an SVG representation of a 1-inch-wide 8-bit paper tape. The generated SVG can be used to create paper tapes such as those read by vintage ...

Since the dawn of computers, we’ve tried different ways to store data. These days, you grab data over the network, but you probably remember using optical disks, floppies, or, more recently, flash ...