Tape imaging

[Chuck Guzis]

On 08/10/2016 08:03 PM, dwight wrote:
> I guess I'm not with the rest. I'd prefer ascii HEX format.
> 
> SIMH may not be around in 50 or 100 years.

50 years ago, ASCII (USASCII) wasn't terribly common, except on 7-level
TTY.  A lot of machines used 6-bit codes and IBM's new line of S/360
used EBCDIC.

But I think I've run exactly one emulation on SIMH--IBM 1620--and it
didn't involve tape.

I chose the SIMH .TAP format because it was formally documented.  I
include a copy of the document with every tape job.

--Chuck