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From: Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com>
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Subject: Re: Getting started with AVR and C
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:02:17 -0500
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Mark Borgerson wrote:

> In article <vq9tb8p68ukkf8geefabuvv5di8k78hkbg@4ax.com>,
> jonk@infinitefactors.org says...
> >
> >
> > I think I'll just get serious about drill rods and have
> > somewhat more modest fun. I can't afford these hobbies of
> > yours!! A terrabyte done on paper tape! Cripes.
> >
> If it's the paper tape that is the key, not the method
> of storing data, perhaps a paradigm shift is in order.
>
> 1. you could lower the laser power to the point where
> you just char the paper a bit and use an optical reader.
>
> 2. Use an ink-jet print head to print the 'holes'
> and an optical sensor to read the tape.

Sounds like paperbytes all over again. At a couple K bytes
per page it would still take a lot of paper for a Tbyte.

:)

w..