3.12 FW for OC.
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Some punched tape from an IBM teletype machine. I’m fairly sure that this is a Fortran program that I spooled off sometime in 1983.
I have no way of checking now 
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Any patches?
“Has anyone got a spare comma card?"
Willy.
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When I was at university we engineering undergraduates were allowed (and sometimes even required) to write programs in a somewhat simplified version of Fortran and load them into the Maths Dept mainframe using punched cards, one card per line of program. Dropping a stack of 500 punched cards and then trying to get the order right again in time to get my work in by the deadline was a painful incident. And I also remember a friend being banned from using the computer for a month because he had written a three card program to make the line printer type “Now wash your hands” at the top of one sheet of line printer paper (approx A3 size) and repeat it several hundred times until a computer technician terminated the program execution.
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Waiting for the line printer was a core so I came up with a program to jump the queue, once whatever was printing had finished mine just slipped in the short (but long enough) gap before the operating system spooler re-opened the printer for output. I feigned ignorance when others complained that they’d been waiting ages for their printout 
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Do you think Fortran would impact sound quality for today’s Streamers? He he
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Invited to the Premier Division of the Old Folks Well-being consultation with an independent GP. Took 20 minutes. That’s more time ,collectively,than I have had face to face with anyone of my six practise doctors in the last two years.
Everything is fine for my age. Bp 133/80.I have shrunk over an inch. Blood test ordered for missing data.
End of life instructions issued. Where and how.’ Surrounded by family and friends’ forbidden.
Sadly he has no control over RIP ( or it’s use as a dreadful acronym)as I told him I would rather be doing something through eternity. It always sounds like a punishment to me.
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Nice selection of inks Nick.
At some point I have to do the same with my pens. Having about 100+ ( I used to collect ) it’s going to take awhile 
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This lovely piece of kit arrived today. Casio fx-602P. It was still in it’s factory protective film! 
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Looks similar to one I had in late 70’s
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A 502P perhaps?
Will have a hunt around my desk to see if it is still around. I used through the university and then as my time as a site engineer until the 90’s.
Thank you. I’d love to see it.
Did the film have that lovely smell of something nice which is probably bad for you !
Somewhere around the house, I’ve got an HP-41CV, with a couple of its “add-on ROMs” as well. The problem with it is that it uses “odd” batteries - but perhaps they are more easily obtainable these days. I should really look it out.
EDIT: indeed, in these modern times, the N size batteries are readily obtainable from AMZ!
“By heck, It were never like this in ye olden days!”
So I’ve ordered some, and we’ll see if I can get the beast fired up!
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No odour. Harder to peel off than it would have been when new I expect. There was a protective film on the back too 
So pleased
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Is the 41C chunky looking? And of course it’ll use RPN.
Yep RPN.… at that time (40-ish years ago) I’d been brought up on “PDP11 assembler”, so RPN was “not a foreign concept”. Could I be ar$ed with RPN these days? Probably not!
But it will be fun to see if it still works - I recall I had problems with the battery contacts…which involved my cr@p soldering!
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