This is the readme for the fortran programs associated with the paper: Hall SP, Traub RD, Adams NE, Cunningham MO, Schofield I, Jenkins AJ, Whittington MA (2017) Enhanced interlaminar excitation or reduced superficial layer inhibition in neocortex generates different spike and wave-like electrographic events in vitro. J Neurophysiol :jn.00516.2017 These files were contributed by Roger Traub. The fortran can be compiled with the makefile however requires an object file gettime.o which is available elsewhere.