9 May
2014
9 May
'14
6:07 p.m.
On 05/09/2014 05:29 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
You need the sprocket holes for byte framing. Yes,
you could deal
with irregular spacing and skew easily enough, but you do need to be
able to count the bytes, even if there are no holes (bytes of zero).
Ah, yes. The same problem with even parity on 7 track mag tape. 00
looks the same as blank tape.
Okay, well, forget that.
--Chuck