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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Backups
Message-ID: <18990@cup.portal.com>
Date: 31 May 89 05:05:45 GMT
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Gee, for someone posting from TYMNET, Joe's tirade against paper tape is a
big surprise!

Way back when (ca. 1967 or thereabout), "we" (Tymshare) had only 1 computer,
and I remember backing up a LOT of files onto paper tape, such as the sources
to many of the programs I wrote: ECAP, Easyplot, IML, Magnum, POINT, etc.
Yeah, I was there in the early days.  Dave Schmidt (co-founder of Tymshare)
is on the Board of Directors of my current company, and we just recently hired
Terry O'Rourke (son of the other founder of Tymshare).  But I digress ...

Seriously, I had some 30+ years of goodstuff on paper tape, and you'd be

surprised to know how many INDUSTRIES still depend on paper tape: paper mills,
clothes manufacturers, numerical control machinery (punch presses, milling
machines, etc.), etc.

I suppose next I'll have to interface a card reader/punch to the Amiga, and
follow that with the ol' unit-record plugboards, top that off with an abacus
interface, then the grand finale: clay tablets with robot-armed writing stylii!

Sheesh!  :-)  :-)

P.S. Dale Luck uses (used?) paper tape to produce the stitching instructions
for the monograms on the "BOING!" jackets he sells (sold?).

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR)  ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]