Christian, This I don’t know. You should join the hp 80 group on groups.io and ask there: https://groups.io/g/hpseries80 Some of the original engineers for the 85 are on there, they know every detail, and are incredibly helpful. Marc
> On Feb 26, 2019, at 12:40 AM, Christian Corti via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2019, it was written >> The way I have been doing it is to copy the tape files to a LIF floppy disk >> file (real or just emulated with HPDRIVE), then archive that - either just >> the HPDRIVE file or a ImageDisk archive of the real disk. Recreating the >> tape is the inverse process of copying the virtual or real disk to the tape. > > And what about SECUREd files? I'm thinking of a binary program that ideally > dumps the cartridge to e.g a single floppy disk file. I've done something > similarly for the IBM 5110, but I'm no HP 85 expert at all. > There's quite a large HP community, I can't imagine that nobody has attempted > that before. > > Christian