Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 22:52:11 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: "10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10 "
From: Michael Walsh <walshmichaelj at gmail.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Keith F. Lynch <kfl at keithlynch.net> wrote:
> 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.

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