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RCA 501 Electronic Data Processing System (infosec.pub)

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1958 - A little late maybe for Raygun retro, but I still dig it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA_501

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In the 90's I worked for a printed circuit board manufacturer that used paper tape drives to load the base "OS" into their CNC machines.

Paper tape is essentially punched cards on a 1" wide paper tape on a reel-to-reel setup. I think it used an optical reader.

Those amazing eggheads figured out how to transform 3D cad drawings from their engineer's computers into a data stream the CNC machines understood, and somehow added networking to those CNC controllers that were from the Apollo era (the paper tape systems). Wish I had the sense to take a pic with a disposable camera at the time. I don't even know what to search for to show it.

Edit: This controller is similar to what I saw in the nineties, but looks even newer! Haha

Note the paper tape drive.