Need to have a roll of paper punch tape read by a tape reader and printed

[Lawrence Wilkinson]

Sorry Vince & Gary, it was my fault that the original cctalk posting was 
deleted amongst the spam. It did get to cctech which is where Camiel saw it.

But before I could ask Gary to re-post, Camiel had replied so I figured 
that everyone would get to see that.

Lawrence


On 9/03/21 9:41 am, Vincent Slyngstad via cctech wrote:
> 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
>> ________________________________
>> 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 classiccmp.org <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>> 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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