[Simh] MIT MTC Docs

[dott.piergiorgio]

On 02/01/20 13:16, Al Kossow wrote:
> I will be putting a few of the Whirlwind magnetic tape images up on 
> bitsavers
> later today. I've identified four which appear to be for the "Comprehensive
> System" used for non-military programming on tape drive 0. There is a 
> utility
> program on drum band 11, which is kept read only which reads programs from
> tape 0.
> 
> I also turned up a bit more in the documentation for the non-military paper
> tape numbering system. They used project/programmer numbering. Military 
> tapes
> seem to be numbered as Mxxxx or Mxxxxx
> 
> xxx-xxx-xxx  is project - programmer - number assigned by programmer for 
> the paper tape
> 
> They don't appear to follow that convention on the military project 
> paper tapes.

Being a Military/Naval historian (with an huge select mirror of the DTIC 
Archive..) I can suggest that Mxxxx(x) can be the DoD contract number.

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.