[Simh] Some TAP image files aren't quite right

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Sat May 24 17:57:16 EDT 2014


On 5/24/14 2:42 PM, Larry Baker wrote:
> While I've been helping Cory to copy his TAP mag tape image file to a real TK50, I've discovered that the TAP image he's been using does not correctly follow Bob Supnik's SIMH Magtape Representation
> and Handling document (http://simh.trailing-edge.com/docs/simh_magtape.pdf).  I don't know how SIMH TAP images get created.

If he's taking them from bitsavers, they ARE NOT SIMH .tap images.

Bob came up with his modifications after I wrote my tape recovery software, and I used John Wilson's .tap format.

It would have been nice if the trailer record saying what revision of .tap was being used that I proposed was adopted,
but it never was.






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