Summary
Paper tape, part of a collection of paper tape programs and sub-routines used for input to CSIRAC.
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:
Solar Tables Punch CBR251S drum data on 12H tape 15/6/63
Tape not held by Museum Victoria. It was donated to the Powerhouse Museum by John Spencer.
Further information may be found in the headers of either the .CVT or .TSP files.
More Information
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Collection Names
CSIRAC Collection, CSIRAC Archive Collection, CSIRAC Paper Tape Library Collection
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Collecting Areas
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Computer Science & Software Engineering Department, University of Melbourne (The), by Jul 2003
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Creator
Mr. John Spencer, Whyte Street, Brighton, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1963
John Spencer was creator and sole user for all tapes in the range T800 to T893 (except tapes T807 and T849 to 854 inclusive). -
Collector
Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1996
Tape was donated to the Powerhouse Museum by John Spencer. -
Format
Paper Tape
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Keywords
Computing, CSIRAC (Computer), First Generation Computers, Mainframe Computers, Making History - CSIRAC
