[Simh] Mag tape interface

[dott.Piergiorgio d' Errico]

Il 29/03/2012 19:24, Jon Elson ha scritto:
> Well, I am now really close to having a mag tape drive working on
> a Linux system. The docs confused me, so the bit ordering is
> backwards. That will be easy to fix. It is not detecting file marks,
> they just show up as zero-length records. I'll have to track that
> down.
>
> What I will do next is write a program that reads in a whole
> tape to a disk file that is an exact representation of the tape.
> So, there would be a 32-bit record indicator that would be 1-65536
> for a block of data, -1 for a file mark, and -2, etc. for various
> errors.

it's capable of getting PDP-4/7 DECSYS fortran compiler running ? if 
not, I can agree with Al on the redundacy....

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio