Re: How to format Dectape (TC08 + TU56)

2019-05-30 Thread David Gesswein via cctalk 
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 09:21:43PM -0700, Marc Howard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I fired up the 8/A tonight and the TU56's are failing diags.  I want to
> format a tape for scratch use but I can't find the MAINDEC that does this
> (along with flipping up the backplane switch.
> 
> Can someone refresh me on the proceedure?
> 

td8e_format.bin in here will work.
http://www.pdp8online.com/ftp/images/paper_tape/

Manual here
http://www.pdp8online.com/pdp8cgi/query_docs/view.pl?id=55

UNIT? 0
FORMAT? MARK
0201 WORDS,2702 BLOCKS.OK?[YES OR NO]
YES
SET SWITCH TO WTM

Re: How to format Dectape (TC08 + TU56)

2019-05-29 Thread Michael Thompson via cctalk 
>
> Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 21:21:43 -0700
> From: Marc Howard 
> Subject: How to format Dectape (TC08 + TU56)
>
> Hi,
>
> I fired up the 8/A tonight and the TU56's are failing diags.  I want to
> format a tape for scratch use but I can't find the MAINDEC that does this
> (along with flipping up the backplane switch.
>
> Can someone refresh me on the proceedure?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc Howard


MAINDEC-08-EUFB should work on both TC01 and TC08 controllers.

-- 
Michael Thompson