When I was young (still am) we used ASR Teletypes to create the papertape,
that we later could mount in the tapereader on the actual computer itself
(Alpha LSI16).
Maybe that would be an approach.
Wonder what the market would look like for producing the TTY's again?

With best regards

Tomas Larsson
Sweden

Verus Amicus Est Tamquam Alter Idem

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> > Yup. With paper tape. Or two-track wax cylinder recording.
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> I see no reason you couldn't get at least 8 bit parallel 
> going with the music box approach.
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