Subject: Paper Tape

From: jones@pyrite (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 15:38:08 GMT

This morning, on my way in to work, one of my neighbors stopped me and
handed me a tray of old paper tapes.  He said they were for the old LINC
that the U of Iowa medical school used to run; judging by what I learned
by inspecting the contents, he's wrong -- but not far off.  The tapes
probably ran on the old PDP-12, using only the -8 half of the machine.

The tray is a standard 8 compartment by one-inch-deep vacuum formed paper
tape tray, in good condition, with a sticker on the tray that says:

		Item #6053
	NORMAL AND ABNORMAL LUNG FUNCTION
	A Program for Independant Study
	Copyright (C) 1975 by
	American Thoracic Society

The inserted letter says that the software is written in BASIC and has
been tested on PDP-11 (RSTS-V4A and RT-11), PDP-8 (OS-8 and EDU25),
CDC 6400 (Kronos), HP, IBM and NCR systems.

The writeup says that the paper tapes were punched on a PDP-11, and
they're the standard grey fanfold tape that DEC seems to have preferred,
but not DEC brand paper tape.

The tray contains 15 basic programs.

What I appear to have gotten my hands on is antiquated, but not really
antique, computer aided instructional materials.  The state of the art
in 1975 was far more advanced than BASIC, but this stuff appears to be
representative of the state of the marketplace at the time.

So, where does this kind of antiquated software belong?  Short of tossing
it out, are there any suggestions?

					Doug Jones
					[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Charles Lasner)
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 16:28:55 GMT

>it out, are there any suggestions?

I can read it in if you want on my functional PC04 on the 8/e.  Then the
paper-tape itself can be tossed, and the data compressed down to a likely
mere 10K .ZIP file or something like that.

cjl