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 <[email protected]> on behalf of Gary Dye via cctech
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Sent: Monday, March 8, 2021 11:30 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
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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