While it largely depends on personal preference, here are some factors to consider when deciding between paper vs. mesh ...

The paper tape looks like computer tape, but since it only has literal long and short notches, it has two distinct sides. When you learned one set of messages, you could flip the tape over and get ...

Most of the earliest computers used spools of paper tape, which stored information via punch holes. Some early machines, like the Colossus Mark 1 (1944), operated entirely on the data fed in by ...

Did you ever finish a painting project, then shove the tape into your junk drawer -- or worse, randomly in with your paint ...

This was kind of like an electronic typewriter, except it was connected to the PDP-8. It also had a paper tape reader attached, like a side car on a motorcycle. TechRepublic: The computer that ...

Music is a mystery to some of us. Sure, we know what we like when we hear it, but the idea of actually being able to make it baffles us. And the idea of being able to build new instruments to ...