If you're talking about actual paper-based audiotape, that was produced for 
MANY years, and the original tape used by German Radio in the 1930s was paper 
based. We bought our first tape recorder in 1950 and fed it Scotch 100 and 101 
and an equivalent brand of AudioTape (1221?) for 4 or 5 years.

dl

Dan Nelson wrote:
> Does  1/4" craft paper tape coated with magnetic
> particles count as a paper  recording medium ?
> Yea in the  late 40s there were attempts to produce
> mag tape on a paper back.
> Almost as bad as the company in Los Angeles in the
> early 50s who used  cellophane Mothers Cookies over
> run web stock and reslit it to 1/4" tape   brown oxide
> on one side and purple printing on the other,  it was
> quite a laugh. 
> 
> dnw
> 
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