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Old 07-08-2007, 01:00 AM
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The standard paper punch cards of that era had eighty columns and twelve rows for a total of 960 bits capacity. But a programmer needed access to an IBM 029 keypunch or the like and this wasn't something to be seen in anyone's home.

Paper tape would have been a better idea for the Kenbak-1 as tape punching Teletypes were fairly common at the time. And it was a fairly mature technology that had been in use for many decades.

See the "ppt" program on your favorite Unix:

Code:
| o  o. oo|
| oo  .o o|
| oo o.oo |
| oo  . o |
| oo  .  o|
| oo o. oo|
|  o o.o o|
|  oo .  o|
|  o  .   |
| ooo .   |
| oo  .  o|
| ooo .   |
| oo  .o o|
| ooo . o |
| ooo .o  |
| oo  .  o|
| ooo .   |
| oo  .o o|
|  o  .   |
| oo  .o o|
| oooo.   |
| oo  .  o|
| oo o.o o|
| ooo .   |
| oo o.o  |
| oo  .o o|
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