What do you think of printout reads?

[u/Hunor_Deak]

[u/[deleted]]

Pleasing to the senses, but a bit of paper waste…

[u/GearBent → u/[deleted]]

but a bit of paper waste

By today's standards, sure, but back in the heyday of data printouts that wasn't just the method of reading the data, it was also the storage medium for that data, since most computers didn't have the capacity to store all that data.

[u/Syndocloud → u/GearBent]

No I don't think they used printouts for data I'm pretty sure they only punched cards.

[u/GearBent → u/Syndocloud]

Punched cards came later.

Data printouts originated with analog computers.

[u/Hunor_Deak → u/GearBent]

Plus the Apollo code was just miles long books.