[Simh] Way out idea for simh

Paul Koning paulkoning at comcast.net
Thu Apr 21 10:24:40 EDT 2016


> On Apr 21, 2016, at 6:44 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> On 2016-04-21 12:31, Davis Johnson wrote:
>> I haven't heard any mention of ANSI labeled tapes as a data format. OS
>> support varies, and interpretation of the standard varies perhaps even
>> more.
> 
> Right. But it's still a standard, which is a good start.

Unless you're dealing with OS/360, in which case you have something encoded in a character set that isn't ASCII at all, but "IBM ASCII".

	paul




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