However, there were problems using fragile paper tapes under field conditions.
A piece of paper tape went over the puncture site.
The machine then produced a paper tape with 7 yes votes and 1 no vote.
In practice, instructions were read from paper tape due to its limited memory.
The scientist stood up and looked at the long string of paper tape in his hands.
The programs were run from a standard paper tape with five rows of holes for data.
In paper tape, it is the case when there are no holes.
They soon became good at being able to hold the paper tape up to the light and read back the codes.
Punched paper tape was used by the newspaper industry until the mid-1970's or later.
No systems built new today still use punched paper tape.