Item HT 13509.196 12 Hole Paper Tape - CSIRAC Computer, From Tape via Store, T739, 1957

Summary

Paper tape, part of a collection of paper tape programs and sub-routines used for input to CSIRAC. This music program plays music direct from the store. This was faster than reading directly from a data tape.

The collection includes the original University of Melbourne Computation Laboratory Paper Tape Library of 12 hole tapes of subroutines and programs, and program and data tapes from staff and outside users.
Most of the paper tapes were 12-track punched paper tapes. 5 hole paper tapes were used primarily for data input and output rather than program input. However, 5 hole program tapes could be produced by using Interprogram, an English language programming system rather than using machine language.

Each tape has a 'T' number. The Computation Laboratory Paper Tape Library consisted of tapes with a tape number less than 700. There were not 700 tapes but the number 700 was arbitrarily chosen to separate the Computation Laboratory Library tapes from user tapes.

Details of this tape:
17. Music Program
Further information may be found in the headers of either the .CVT or .TSP files.