Paper tape is a slow, low-capacity, sequential medium for data storage that was used on early communications and computing devices. The paper tape holds data as patterns of punched holes with data being represented by the absence or presence of holes at specific positions. The data was written and stored using special tape reading and writing systems. It was widely used during the early twentieth century for teleprinter communication as well as in the computing world in the 1950s and 1960s. Paper tape is largely obsolete now.
