paper tape

基本解释

You fed instructions in on paper tape, and loaded the data on punch cards.
输入纸带上的指令，并装载穿孔卡片上的数据。
Because these systems operated with paper tape and magnetic tapes, the software represented by those media has been repackaged into files for ease of use.
因为这些系统通过纸带和磁带操作，所以通过那些介质表示的软件已经被重新包装成易于使用的文件。
In the early days, bootstrapping a computer meant feeding a paper tape containing a boot program or manually loading a boot program using the front panel address/data/control switches.
早期时，启动一台计算机意味着要给计算机喂一条包含引导程序的纸带，或者手工使用前端面板地址/数据/控制开关来加载引导程序。

Ribbons of the paper tape piled up at Joe's feet like a nest of intertwined vipers.
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Before the introduction of magnetic tape, digital storage for early computers used punched cards, paper tape as well as more exotic technologies such as mercury delay lines and the phosphors on cathode ray tubes.
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Joe ran the paper ticker tape across his desk, squinting at it continuously until the market closed.
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a strip of paper for recording information in the form of rows of either six or eight holes, some or all of which are punched to produce a combination used as a discrete code symbol, formerly used in computers, telex machines, etc 68 (US equivalent perforated tape)