I remember patching programs literally by applying a paper patch to a punched tape and then manually punching in a few assembler opcodes to effect a patch. Usua

I remember patching programs literally by applying a paper patch to a punched tape and then manually punching in a few assembler opcodes to effect a patch. Usually jump to an address at the end of the program where some new code was located in an unpunched section at the end of the tape followed by a jump back. Then you could test the patch and if good, punch out a fresh tape with the patched version. Was slightly more convenient than keying in the opcodes using the front panel switches although there were some simple cases where we did that too.