Vintage Computer Festival wrote: Normally on 8 hole paper tape, the coding is the ASCII value 8 7 6.5 4 3 2 1 0 o.o 0x30 1 o.o o 0x32 A o . o 0x41 B o . o 0x42 C o . o o 0x43 (where o = hole, . = sprocket hold) The 8th position may be used for parity, to make the number of holes in each frame odd or even. Of cours entirely differenct coding could be used depending on the systems and programs used but this is the most "standard". -- hbp

A couple people were curious about the contents of the notebooks in the box of commodore books, so I looked though them and here is a sample of the contents. Notebook 1 C 64 Doctor, set of floppies in a sleeve with brief manual. SAMS Computerfacts, about 3 sheets of circuit diagrams of the C64. 1541 Disk Drive Alignment Program, about a 20 page manual, no floppies etc. Various articles on printing and trouble shooting., ie May 88 Modern Electronics on disk drive PS. Zenith ZVM-131 Users Manual Photocopy of How to Maintain and Service your small computer, Stephenson and Cahill. Notebook 2 About an inch thick of various clipped magazine articles, ala July 88 Radio Electronics on GPIB. Another is how to build your own modem and save money. How to use surplus keyboards, and various articles on hooking up light pens, speech, and graphics tablets. In addition to these fine and rare notebooks, the following books are still up for grabs. No offers refused unless I get a better one, or don't like it. E. Floegel Commodore 64 Tune-up SuperBase 64 manual SuperTest manual 3 small magazines called RE-Run from 1987 (sorry no floppies). Users Technical manual for a Advanced Logic Research EXT turbo Richard mansfield, Machine Language for Beginners Rouse and Bugnitz, Programming the IBM Personal Computer: Fortan 77 HPBooks, Basic Program Conversion Save on shipping and take advantage of the amazing rare appearance of ME at the Santee drive in Swap Meet (east of San Diego) this Saturday. Anything that will fit in a Mustang convertible along with my wife and son, I can bring down.