paper tape

基本解释

You fed instructions in on paper tape, and loaded the data on punch cards.
輸入紙帶上的指令，竝裝載穿孔卡片上的數據。
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.
因爲這些系統通過紙帶和磁帶操作，所以通過那些介質表示的軟件已經被重新包裝成易於使用的文件。
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.
早期時，啓動一台計算機意味著要給計算機喂一條包含引導程序的紙帶，或者手工使用前耑麪板地址/數據/控制開關來加載引導程序。

Ribbons of the paper tape piled up at Joe's feet like a nest of intertwined vipers.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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.
FORBES: Magnetic Tape Turns 60
Joe ran the paper ticker tape across his desk, squinting at it continuously until the market closed.
FORBES: Magazine Article

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)