Below you will find example sentences with "paper tape". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Paper Tape in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: tape
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 16
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 24.6 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 6 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "paper tape" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 24.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a paper tape reader was, and a paper tape, punched, canister and may stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with toilet paper, paper bags, red tape, red tape, duct tape and tape recorder, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with paper tape
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
An alternative to cards was punched paper tape. (8 words)
A late version of Spacewar! on paper tape was still tucked into the case. (14 words)
Baudot's hardware had three main parts: the keyboard, the distributor, and a paper tape. (15 words)
While Unger never designed letters to be cast as metal type, fonts were not yet small files of software that can zip across the internet: the Hell Digiset was initially fed with fonts encoded on a roll of punched paper tape. (41 words)
Paper tape canister Paper tape canister, designed to securely distribute cryptographic keys The paper tape canister is a tamper resistant container from which the contents may manually be dispensed but which prohibits reinsertion of a tape once removed. (38 words)
Allen Coombs took over leadership of the Colossus Mark 2 project when Tommy Flowers moved on to other projects. citation Colossus was able to process 5,000 characters per second with the paper tape moving at convert. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Paper tape canister Paper tape canister, designed to securely distribute cryptographic keys The paper tape canister is a tamper resistant container from which the contents may manually be dispensed but which prohibits reinsertion of a tape once removed.
A Teletype Model 33 ASR with paper tape reader and punch, as used for modem -based computing Paper tape was sometimes used to prepare input for the computer session off line and to capture computer output.
PAL-8 assembly language source code was often stored on paper tape, read into memory, and saved to paper tape.
A paper tape reader was smaller and much less expensive than hollerith card or magnetic tape readers.
Operators typed in the message to the paper tape, and then sent the message at the maximum line speed from the tape.
The paper tape has been withdrawn from the canister and an attempt to reinsert the tape has failed.
When an electrical current was received, an electromagnet engaged an armature that pushed a stylus onto the moving paper tape, making an indentation on the tape.
Each user had sole use of the machine for a scheduled period of time and would arrive at the computer with program and data, often on punched paper cards and magnetic or paper tape.
In the case of cryptographic keys, the inherent flammability (sometimes enhanced by using flash paper) of paper tape was an asset.
On the older machines the programs are on punched paper tape, and maybe the output is coming out on the teleprinter.
While Unger never designed letters to be cast as metal type, fonts were not yet small files of software that can zip across the internet: the Hell Digiset was initially fed with fonts encoded on a roll of punched paper tape.
After programmable general purpose computers were invented, machine languages (consisting of strings of the binary digits 0 and 1 on punched paper tape) were introduced that sped up the programming process (Stern, 1981).
After the program finished executing, the output may have been printed, or it may have been punched onto paper tape or cards for later processing.
A late version of Spacewar! on paper tape was still tucked into the case.
Allen Coombs took over leadership of the Colossus Mark 2 project when Tommy Flowers moved on to other projects. citation Colossus was able to process 5,000 characters per second with the paper tape moving at convert.
Although superior to paper tape, DECtapes were relatively slow, and were supplanted once reliable disk drives became affordable.
An alternative to cards was punched paper tape.
As early as the age of ten he was able to build a device out of Erector Set components that converted punched paper tape into Morse code signals.
Baudot's hardware had three main parts: the keyboard, the distributor, and a paper tape.
Cash registers National Cash Register or NCR (Dayton Ohio) made cash registers around 1970 that would punch paper tape.