And that charm is what [Joshua Coleman] captures with this DIY paper tape reader build. So far, writing the tapes is an offline process. [Joshua] uses a Python program to convert ASCII to an SVG ...

What is still missing, however, is a faster way to get data into the computer than manually toggling switches. The obvious choice is to make a (punched) paper tape reader, but how does one go ...

The new mechanical computer uses 64 physical cubes to represent binary bits and is inspired by kirigami — the Japanese art of paper-folding ... which stretches elastic tape and pushes the ...

Otherwise the longhand notes would have to be sent off to be converted on to tape. The students would then take the code with them when they visited the computer. "They would spool the paper on to ...

Otherwise the longhand notes would have to be sent off to be converted on to tape. The students would then take the code with them when they visited the computer. "They would spool the paper on to ...