punched tapes

A form of punched tape — Synonym of paper tape (“an early sequential digital storage medium originally used with teletype machines, consisting of a long roll of paper, each character being encoded as a pattern of punched holes”).

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of punched tape
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