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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-01-08 20:24, Paul Koning wrote:
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>> On Jan 8, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> I think, but this is a *very* vague memory, that one of the later additions was the addition of the century number to the date fields. Originally, ANSI labels were not Y2K compliant.

I think that is correct. RSX handles years past 1999 on ANSI tapes. And 
I remember that one additional digit was allocated for that use which I 
think was just a space or something before.

	Johnny