24 May
2014
24 May
'14
11:12 a.m.
The username field in the archive is of the form used on CDC Cyber computers running NOS
or KRONOS.
University of Illinois was big on CDC machines.
I bet it is some kind of archive format used on CDC machines to create tapes that could be
interchanged with other types of systems, e.g. IBM.
I wish I could remember more detail from my Cyber operator days, as I do vaguely remember
that there was a utility that we ran to create takes in a format that the big IBM
systems on the business side of the company (Tektronix) could read.
Please excuse top posting, my phone won't let me post any other way.
Rick Bensene
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Guzis [cclist at sydex.com]
Received: Friday, 23 May 2014, 1:00PM
To: General at bensene.com [General at bensene.com]; Discussion at bensene.com:On-Topic
and Off-Topic Posts [cctalk at classiccmp.org]
Subject: Re: Question about SIMH .TAP files
On 05/23/2014 11:22 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
The 4th word looks like the sort of usernames that
University of
Illinois inflicted on its students (derived from student ID numbers).
Good catch--the tape's from UIUC.
--Chuck