Re: HP 85 tapes

2019-02-28 Thread Martin Hepperle via cctalk
Christian, there is the document "9915-TapeDuplicationAndEPROMProgrammingSoftware-09915-10011-46pages-Jul83.p df" on the HP-.Museum web site. I think the associated software is not available, but it also uses the TAPDUP binary (pg. 1-2) and the same IMAGE program. The binary itself was part of

Re: HP 85 tapes

2019-02-27 Thread Martin Hepperle via cctalk
Christian, the TAPDUP binary and associated utility programs in BASIC was used to create EPROMs with programs and data for the 9915 Series-80 box. It can be used to read the directory record and then to read tokenized PROGrams as data on a file-record base - not at low record level. The package

Re: HP 85 tapes

2019-02-27 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Paul Berger wrote: Well a quick google and I found this http://vintagecomputers.site90.net/hp85/hp9915_eprom.htm it would seem that this was one of the tools used to build images of programs to burn into EPROMs for  9915 which is a version of the 85 designed to be used as

Re: HP 85 tapes

2019-02-26 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
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 >

Re: HP 85 tapes

2019-02-26 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019, Christian Corti wrote: 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

Re: HP 85 tapes

2019-02-26 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
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

Re: HP 85 tapes

2019-02-25 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
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

HP 85 tapes

2019-02-25 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
Hi, what is the recommended way to image HP 85 tape cartridges? The best would be including headers and whatsoever, and to be able to recreate tapes from the images and have a 1:1 duplicate from the original cartridge. I'm almost done with rebelting and imaging our 264x cartridges and would