Help reading a 9 track tape

[Jay Jaeger]

On 8/5/2021 9:28 AM, James Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 4, 2021 at 10:25 AM Jay Jaeger <cube1 at charter.net> wrote:
>>
> 
> Thanks, Jay (and others) for offering your assistance.  I've asked
> Chuck to have a look at the tape, and we'll see how it goes.
> 

Great!

>> Given the name "IEBUPDTX" this tape was certainly intended to be used on
>> a 360 or 370, as you described below (IBM has a utility IEBUPDTE).
> 
> I can't say I know much about IBM systems, but apparently Strubbe, who
> was doing the port and who I got the tape from, was no fan of
> IEBUPDTE.  I wonder if IEBUPDTX was his attempt at an improvement.
> 

Sounds likely.

> 
> - jim
> 

JRJ