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sebzim450004/01/20251 replyview on HN

In the UK we called it ticket tape and it was terrible. The devices barely worked and they cause a bunch of friction so you end up calculating a value of 'g' that's off by like 30%.


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timthorn04/01/2025

I think officially, we called it ticker tape, as in stock ticker - it was originally used to record stock prices transmit by telegraph.