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

[Timothe Litt]

And.. Looking a bit harder, from the same source, the 1987 version.

This communication may not represent my employer's views,
if any, on the matters discussed. 

On 08-Jan-16 14:13, Clem Cole wrote:
> 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
> <mailto:paulkoning at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     > On Jan 8, 2016, at 11:19 AM, khandy21yo <khandy21yo at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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
>
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