They were freshly laundered, folded around cardboard sheets, held in place by paper ribbons.
One room could be filled entirely with keyboards, which operated by punching coded perforations on to a roll of paper ribbon.
The first models typed on a paper ribbon, which was then cut and glued into telegram forms.
The encrypted or decrypted output of the machine was printed on a small paper ribbon.
A cheer went up from the crowd as the golden cable car smashed through the thin paper ribbon.
One was like a stock ticker, with its paper ribbon; the other was a small typewriter which had only capital letters.
Brief instructions had imprinted themselves upon the paper ribbon.
Someone had affixed an absurd green paper ribbon to the neck of the stuffed lizard over the door, but all seemed dark within.
The artist perform in a cube made of paper ribbons, making herself a passage through the space.
It was composed of a 'tape,' a paper ribbon of arbitrarily extendable length.