[Simh] back10 redux
Johnny Eriksson
bygg at cafax.se
Fri May 12 13:06:55 EDT 2017
I have now had enough time to spend on my 36-bit tape tool, back10, that
it seems to be time to announce an update.
The code can (still) be found at:
http://www.pdc.kth.se/~bygg/tops/back10.tar
For now it can:
* read and extract files from backup-10 tapes.
* read and (somewhat) extract files from dumper tapes. At the moment it
writes one full page (512 words) for each logical tape record, ignoring
the file length meta-data. This will be fixed "soon".
* read and extract files from failsafe (!) tapes. One such tape is
AP-D481A-SB_1978.tap (BASIC-10 V17E 1978 from trailing-edge).
* write backup-10 tapes, in both interchange and native modes.
* examine tapes, both show the record structure (-s) and peek at data
in various formats (-p).
If there are other formats, it should be fairly straight-forward to
add them.
This is still very much a work-in-progress. For instance, the manual
is not yet done. In fact, it does not even exist.
Enjoy,
--Johnny
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