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From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:19:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202001141719.00EHJHsQ1040700@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wsgkihsdh.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>

Lars Brinkhoff writes:
> Jon Steinhart wrote:
> > I have a copy of double-sun space war (sorry, just the binary) for the
> > PDP-15/GRIN-2 on DEC fan-fold paper tape with the boot loader written
> > in octal on the leader.  Not sure if it's of any use
>
> I'm very interested in this!  Is the paper tape readable somehow?

Now that's an interesting question.  Being paper tape, it's from the days
in which you could see a bit with the naked eye.  Another industrial
artifact that I have somewhere is a paper tape reader, but it would take
time away from skiing to get it working.  Does anybody know if the
Computer History Museum or equivalent has a DEC paper tape reader that
works?  I could probably lay it out on a scanner but that would be
tedious.  Might actually be best, it's over 45 years old and probably
fragile.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-14 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-14  8:54 Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-14 16:59 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-14 17:15   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-14 17:19     ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2020-01-14 17:26       ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-15 23:32       ` Al Kossow
2020-01-14 17:25     ` Clem Cole
2020-01-15  3:32 Brian Walden
2020-01-15  4:01 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-15  4:50   ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-15  6:17 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-15  6:34   ` Earl Baugh
2020-01-15 12:29     ` John Foust

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