Tape imaging

dwight dkelvey at hotmail.com
Wed Aug 10 22:03:38 CDT 2016


I guess I'm not with the rest. I'd prefer ascii HEX format.

SIMH may not be around in 50 or 100 years.

Dwight


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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
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Subject: Re: Tape imaging

On 08/10/2016 11:34 AM, Rich Alderson wrote:
>> From: Chuck Guzis

> It's too bad that the Time Capsule File System invented more than
> twenty years ago at MIT never took off:
>
> http://www.boogles.com/local/papers/tcfs-thesis/thesis.html

Yup, I recall seeing that.  In my case, I append (after the .tap EOI
marker) my metadata records, including a transfer log generated in real
time.  Most SIMH software doesn't look past EOI if reading, so that's okay.

--Chuck


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