From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: "10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10 "
Date: Sat,  1 Dec 2012 18:08:28 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com> wrote:
> "10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10, a new book ...

Speaking of which, I have had a bunch of punched paper tapes lying
around the apartment for decades.  Some are mine, others were given
to me by someone asking me to read them for him.  I've never owned
a paper tape reader, but last month I wrote a C program to use my
flatbed scanner to read them.

They're mostly BASIC programs, like the one-line program you quote,
only much longer.  Each version of BASIC had a slightly different
syntax, and I've not yet been able to find one that can make sense
of some of these programs.