15 Dec
2015
15 Dec
'15
7:10 p.m.
On 12/15/2015 01:48 PM, Dave Wade wrote:
What I meant was are they still on 9-track, or some
kind of
tape-in-a-file disk? IBM tapes are usually written to AWS format
files not the formats (.TAP ?) used by SIMH... Some source to extract
some versions of these from AWS files (and windows executables) are
in this ZIP file:-
Came right off a 1600 cpi tape, identified as a CMS dumpfile.
What really strikes me as odd, is that ANSI/IBM tape labels were pretty
much the standard rule of thumb then; why the heck did IBM invent
something new and obscure?
--Chuck