Memories are fuzzy. I think I remember a device that wrote to a magnetic tape, where the tape written to just fell into...something like a very wide vacuum column from a tape drive, not taken up on a spool. Maybe it had a keyboard, but it's input actually came in over (dial-up?) tty-like serial data. Like, branch offices or field sales people called in and upload their daily data?
Does anybody remember anything like this? --Carey
