@neauoire the longevity of paper tapes and punch cards is amazing. @phooky and I recovered some from a moldy basement and were able to read them fifty years later. https://trmm.net/Papertapes/
@th @neauoire @phooky the density is kind of awful but with how tiny most uxn roms are maybe it doesn't matter, haha, and for archival purposes I guess density is less of an issue vs mass media too.
Still sound super cool how robust it can be. I guess just don't get em properly wet and hope for no fires, haha. Seems like you could visually inspect for "corruption" very easily too.
@maxc @neauoire @phooky 8-bit punch tape is possible, although I don't recall if the ASR-33 can send it (my recollection is it is hardwired for 7E2) http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp8/software/DEC-08-NGCC-D_PaperTapeSW.pdf
@th ah the 12 bit word is the context I was missing :) makes sense now.