Unknown paper tape format

Kyle Owen kylevowen at gmail.com
Sun Dec 23 15:25:43 CST 2018


I found a spool of mylar tape dated 23 March 1972, with "EARS" on it; best
I can tell, this was for the Experimental Array Radar System.

Image can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=11VKKklor1QDyWCz0b3zVNj_I_vmt4oN4

Anyone have any clue as to the format? Here's the beginning of the tape:

0000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
*
0000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 40 40 08 e5
0000070 43 c1 40 5b 43 c1 40 dc 43 c1 40 5d 43 c1 40 5e
0000080 43 c1 40 df 43 c1 40 e0 43 c1 40 61 43 c1 40 62
0000090 43 c1 40 e3 43 c1 40 64 43 c1 40 f1 c2 c1 40 f2
00000a0 c2 c1 40 73 c2 c1 40 f4 c2 c1 40 75 c2 c1 40 f7
00000b0 c2 c1 40 45 43 c1 40 46 43 c1 40 c7 43 c1 40 c8
00000c0 43 c1 40 49 43 c1 40 4a 43 c1 40 4c 43 c1 40 cb
00000d0 43 c1 40 d5 43 c1 40 d6 43 c1 40 4a 40 c1 40 cd
00000e0 40 c1 40 cb 40 c1 40 7f e0 c1 40 f2 45 c2 40 57
00000f0 43 c1 40 58 43 c1 40 d9 43 c1 40 da 43 c1 40 6e

and the end:

0006400 45 c2 40 57 4c c1 40 5e 4c c1 40 f4 cb c1 40 e5
0006410 4c c1 40 fb cb c1 40 ec 4c c1 40 e0 7f 7f 40 40
0006420 40 c7 40 73 4c c1 40 7a 4c c1 40 c7 40 40 40 da
0006430 c8 c2 40 ef 57 c1 40 c1 cd c1 40 46 d0 d0 40 79
0006440 cd c1 40 d5 57 c1 40 4f cd c1 40 5d cd c1 40 c2
0006450 4c c1 40 6b cd c1 40 c8 cd c1 40 58 cb c1 40 df
0006460 cb c1 40 e6 cb c1 40 f2 cd c1 40 46 40 40 40 cd
0006470 40 40 40 4c 40 40 40 d5 d6 c1 40 d5 61 c1 40 40
0006480 61 c1 40 fb d3 c2 40 c7 ce c1 40 7f 57 c1 40 c2
0006490 cb c1 40 49 40 40 40 e3 d6 c1 40 f2 d6 c1 40 58
00064a0 57 c2 40 76 d9 c2 40 40 40 40 08 07 80 80 80 00
00064b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
*
0006600 00 00 00 00 00 00

Would love to know what computer system this was running on.

Thanks!

Kyle


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