• Color: white
• Length: 50 cm / 19.68 inches / 1.64 feet
• Manufacturer: USSR
• Material: paper
• Standard: GOST 10860-83
• Application: old USSR mainframes: BESM, MIR, Minsk-32, URAL, ES-10XX and others
• Condition: used, perforated with old program code

We sell 50 cm (1.64 feet) of the punched computer tape with old program code.

A punched tape is a medium of information made of paper. Information on punched tape was recorded by punching holes (perforations). Several holes across the tape formed lines where was written the code of one character. Each horizontal row of holes on the punched tape corresponds to one letter, sign or space between them. In the middle of the tape can see "transport track" with small holes. They is used to move the tape using a gear wheel.

Due to the simplicity of input/output devices, punched tape is widespread in computer technology. Later computer punched tapes were 7 or 8 rows wide and used ASCII encoding for recording. They were used in minicomputers for input / output of information and for control of CNC machines until the mid-1980s and after were displaced by magnetic media.

The main advantage-punched tape was a cheap media. Relatively simple and cheap was the equipment with which it recorded and read information.

Original paper tape for mainframe is rare these days we found the thing with a lot of effort. We have very limited quantity available for sale and price can will be increased after next several sales.

Attention! The entire roll in the photo has a length of more than 1 meter, we send only 1 meter by cutting a piece of tape from the roll. You can buy several lots and get one long piece.