[Simh] Making tape/disk images

[dott.Piergiorgio]

Il 03/05/2010 20:46, Jason Stevens ha scritto:
> TME does this.... (the machine emulator, it's geared to some old SUN
> stuff)...  Which always sounds like fun until you get some tape with like
> 50+ files.... But maybe I'm just getting cranky... :)
>
> IMHO it's way more "transportable" giving someone a single tape file, vs a
> tonne of lose files....
>
> Oh well that's my lame $0.02... flame away! :)

Not a flame :D , only a simple consideration: surely many people, 
notwithstanding nostalgia &c, surely prefer the modern editors and/or 
x-assemblers re. the native dev tools, so having means of host-to-simh 
and vice-versa tools plus tarballs of the (source) contents of the tape 
images should be more than welcome, I guess.

For sure I suspect that people whose want to play (hacker's sense) with 
the 1401 SPS assembler surely really appreciate the programmable tabbing 
of certain current editors ;)

I never speak much on my pet projects because I never appreciate 
"vaporwares", but I'm toying around the idea of a DrOS for the PDP1s and 
4s (the idea came from both the consideration on the readme of the 
PDP-7's DECsys and a general idea of the scientific computing of 1960s 
(side note, no one has noticed that the NASA's Technical report server 
can be considered in the same league of Bitsavers in preserving the 
1950s to 1970s scientific computing ?))

Notice that DrOS stand for DRum Operating System and has no relation 
with the scathing Drecnet term of the jargon of yore :)

So, my little question: is feasible to adapt the MACRO7 cross-assembler 
to the -4 ?

Sorry for my ramblings, and

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.