[Coco] Importing CCRs

Arthur Flexser flexser at fiu.edu
Thu Mar 29 00:39:28 EDT 2007


On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Chester A Patterson wrote:
> >Wasn't there a wire as storage media in there somewhere way back when?
> 
> Yes, in the 40's.  It died a deserving death with the introduction of 
> tape.  Then when tape went plastic, we used the paper version for a 
> funeral pyre.
> 

Are you saying that, prior to the advent of plastic, paper tape was somehow used
for audio recording?  (Maybe you're referring to piano rolls, or some similar
scheme for activating notes on a player, as opposed to actual audio?)

Art




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