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by amenghra 463 days ago
If you are into punchcards, I wrote a multipart blog post about recovering and running some 40-years old code which was originally on punch tape.

See https://www.quaxio.com/kaleidoscope_part1/

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It seems that you have not yet gotten to the part of actually reading from the tape.
In part 1, I build an emulator to run the code. In part 2 I verify that the punchcard data matches the source code I found online (https://www.quaxio.com/kaleidoscope_part2/). I performed this "reading from the tape" operation using inkscape since I only have a picture of the tape, I don't actually have a copy of the tape. In part 3 I show the structure of the code (https://www.quaxio.com/kaleidoscope_part3/).
Then you did your reading of the tape without writing anything about the process of reading it, in which case your blog posts seems less than relevant to this story.