punched tape
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[edit]Etymology
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A roll of punched tape.
A 1950s Harwell Dekatron computer which used punched tape.[n 1]
From punched (adjective) + tape.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /pʌnt͡ʃt ˈteɪp/
- Rhymes: -eɪp
Noun
[edit]punched tape (usually uncountable, plural punched tapes)
- (computing, historical) Synonym of paper tape (“an early sequential digital storage medium originally used with teletype machines, consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being encoded as a pattern of punched holes”)
- Synonym: punched paper tape
- Coordinate terms: punch card, punched card
- 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: Recording Electric Operation”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 707:
- Train positions and speeds were established by a track magnet at each milepost, which produced a suitable mark on the punched recording tape whenever a train passed.
Translations
[edit]synonym of paper tape — see paper tape
Notes
[edit]- ^ From the collection of The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, in the United Kingdom.
References
[edit]- ^ “punched tape, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “punched tape, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
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punched tape on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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