Wired: "Paper is the New Silicon"

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://wired.com/news/columns/0,71092-0.html

"All the way through the 1980s, the missile targets were programmed  
using paper punch tape. When I was writing my college thesis on a  
Macintosh SE, and around the time that Intel released the 80386  
processor, the United States was programming one-megaton nuclear  
weapons with paper tape. As our guide, retired Army man Jim McMillan  
explained to our tour group, paper can't be erased, demagnetized or  
easily tampered with."