14 Jul
2018
14 Jul
'18
1:50 p.m.
Dan Veeneman via cctalk wrote:
I recently received the following request:
..and Chuck responded:
I just recently found a (9 or 7 track?) tape of
mine made on an
HP2000 (probably C, maybe F) in 1977 from a DUMP of two accounts.
I've had it for 40 years with nothing to process it. Now I have
simh to process it on, but nothing to read it with.
Does anyone have experience and the ability to read such a tape? I can read 7-track as well as 9-track (800 NRZI, 1600
PE and 6250 GCR)
tapes. My output format is SIMH .TAP files. Interpretation is up to you.
Once you get .TAP files, here's a link to the tools you need to extract the catalog
directories, as well as decode the BASIC programs on the tape. They work fantastic:
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/software/tsbutils/
Once you get the tape read and have a .tap image, please put it somewhere where Time
Shared BASIC fans can download it and take a look at what's there. If it's a
HIBernate tape, could potentially be fired up under SimH and run just as it was the day
the tape was made.
If it's a 9-Track tape, I do have ability to read them, but no 7-track capability.
I'm in Oregon.
-Rick
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Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Museum
http://oldcalculatormuseum.com