I was exposed to paper tape for about six months during my first job. I thought it was amazingly cool technology. You could actually read the one's and zero's

I was exposed to paper tape for about six months during my first job. I thought it was amazingly cool technology. You could actually read the one's and zero's and enter them by hand if needed into the PDP 11/34's front panel keypad. No head crashes or corrupted sectors. Even if the tape ripped you could reproduce the data.