I am a cctalk subscriber, but I don't seem to be
getting messages
reliably any more.? So, I'm replying to the reply, as I never got the
original query.
Anyway Gary, I'm in Beaverton OR, USA and so quite possibly local, and
I can read your paper tape easily enough.? Email or a thumb drive or
whatever so you can print out the result.
I don't think my Teletype is in good enough shape at the moment to
make you a period correct print-out, though.
????Vince
On 3/9/2021 12:03 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctech wrote:
Gary,
I don't know if you're in Europe or elsewhere. I'm in the
Netherlands, and I could do that free of charge. I'd also make a
video recording of the process for your sons education.
Camiel
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From: cctech <cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Gary Dye
via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 8, 2021 11:30 PM
To: cctalk at
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Subject: Need to have a roll of paper punch tape read by a tape
reader and printed
Hi folks.? I wrote a basketball program in Basic over 40 years ago in
high school.? I printed the 13 pages of code, and produced a roll of
paper punch tape of the code, but the 13 pages were destroyed,
leaving me with only the paper tape.? My 14-year-old son was pretty
fascinated to see the roll of computer punch tape -- paper with holes
in it! -- that we used to store files in the old days. And that we
didn't have computer screens, but only a teletype element that
printed -- one letter at a time -- the back-and-forth information
between the timeshare computer and the teletype (output). This paper
punch tape is the Basic program that I wrote in high school that
played a random basketball game (as called by Bill Schonely, radio
voice of the Portland Trailblazers). I'm trying to find someone to
run it through a tape reader so that I can retrieve the code and play
the game again.? I'm hoping to explain the code to Owen so that he
might understand the power of coding and get interested in coding.
Is there anyone out there that I can send my roll of paper tape to
such that the code can be restored?? I could pay some compensation
for your troubles.
Much appreciated,
Gary
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