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

[Clem Cole]

I asked our (Intel's) corporate librarians to see if they could find
X3.27-xxx and in particular -1969 (the original) and -1978 which was
version 3.   I agree with Paul, that V3 (-1978) was the version that most
people implemented. I seems to remember that, VMS started with V2 and
upgraded to 3 - as I remember on VAX Serial #1 trying to read tapes from it
on the 360 or the Univac was funky.

I wish I could remember what changed between the versions.  I once knew,
and I've sent a note to one of my old housemates that wrote some of the VMS
tape support years ago.  He might remember/have some of this stuff.


Anyway, I'm trying to find my old copies the documents, but I fear they
might have been lost in the apt flood of a few years ago (I lost some
historical stuff in that that my wife made to toss).   At one time, I had a
photocopy of the -1969 with my IBM/360 files.  I know I still have one of
the best document on using tapes CMUs Computer Center wrote in the early
1960s (I know I do still have it because I found that and referred to it
last summer).  Anyway, I'll keep looking this weekend.

BTW: the current version of the spec is not ANSI X3 mumble...  It's now
called:   INCITS 27-1987 [S2008]
http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?sku=INCITS+27-1987%5bS2008%5d


It's $60 from ANSI

Clem

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> > On Jan 8, 2016, at 11:19 AM, khandy21yo <khandy21yo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The programming manual that I foubd for rsrs.e documents it as 1.
> > Thats the only documentation I have for the format, so went with what I
> had, and compared it against rsts distribution tapes. Not ideal, but better
> than nothing.
>
> I should have been more specific.  According to the sources, RSTS V10.1
> does ANSI label format version 3.  I don't know about older versions.
>
>         paul
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Simh mailing list
> Simh at trailing-edge.com
> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/pipermail/simh/attachments/20160108/1e08a40e/attachment.html>