Daniel Robbins hired by M$

[Henry Spencer]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I'm actually more impressed by the PDP-8 LISP that I have in paper
> tape...
> I guess reading these tapes by eye might actually be practical.

The modern way to read them, obviously, is to *scan* them (against a
background sheet of contrasting color) -- 25cm at a time if you don't want
to cut them up -- and process the images to recover the bits.  Probably
wouldn't even be terribly hard, actually. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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