[Simh] RSTS/E 10.1-L and Paper tape

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-01-07 01:12, Rich Alderson wrote:
>> From: Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com>
>> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:00:19 -0800
>
>> Meanwhile, the 'crude' way to exchange data on most simulators can
>> actually be done with cut and paste in console or telnet sessions.
>
> While I do use c&p for command lines from time to time, I've never found it to
> be satisfactory for file transfer.  For that, I wrote a set of programs for
> TOPS-20 to create or disassemble .tap (in klh10 terms, .tps) files.  (Well, I
> also wrote versions for .tpc files, but I've never had reason to keep them up
> to date as I've improved on the .tap variants.)
>
> These have stood me in good stead for TOPS-20, Tops-10, ITS, and WAITS work,
> moving data between real media, real systems, image files, and both SimH and
> klh10.  I advocate for using tape images for most data transfer, since most of
> the emulated minis and mainframes under SimH never had any kind of networking.
>
> On the other hand, I'm one of the three people I know of in the world who still
> makes a living programming in PDP-10 assembler.

Wouldn't you like to have a PDP-11 assembler programmer on the paylist 
as well? ;-)

	Johnny

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