[OT] Altair

[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-08-30, Christopher Reimer <christopher_reimer at icloud.com> wrote:

> Paper tape reader. The first time I came across a paper tape reader
> when I visited the university as a teenager in 1984. A CNC machine
> read the paper tape to drill six holes in a piece of metal.

The file containing the list of coordinates generated by a CAD program
for holes in a circuit board is still often referred to as a "drill
tape".

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