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

[Marvin Johnston via cctalk]

FWIW, I went back to the CCTALK archives and could not find the original 
message either. Being curious, I went back to the CCTALK archives and 
there it was.

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