Re: [Simh] PDP-15 DECtapes

2011-10-11 Thread Pontus
On 10/11/2011 04:58 PM, Ian King wrote: We have a PDP-8/e with DECtapes here at the Livivg Computer Museum, as well as a PDP-7 with the DEC mod to let it run 9/15 software. We also just obtsined a PDP-15. Can we help? -Ian Certainly. At this stage I don't know if I will get a chance to look

Re: [Simh] PDP-15 DECtapes

2011-10-11 Thread Ian King
We have a PDP-8/e with DECtapes here at the Livivg Computer Museum, as well as a PDP-7 with the DEC mod to let it run 9/15 software. We also just obtsined a PDP-15. Can we help? -Ian From: simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com [simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com]

Re: [Simh] PDP-11 Mag Tapes

2011-10-11 Thread Shoppa, Tim
Under some circumstances DOS-11 tapes have the last record of a text file, shorter than 512 bytes. And it can be an odd length. I've seen some tools that deal with tape images, getting confused by tape records with odd lengths. Note that DECUS TPC for example pads out the tape record with an ext

Re: [Simh] PDP-15 DECtapes

2011-10-11 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
Hmm. This wasn't meant for the list. Oh well. On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 03:17:10PM +0200, Pontus Pihlgren wrote: > in sthlm that has a working PDP-8/e with tape drives. I'm not sure the > > system is compatible with PDP-15 tapes though. > Reading throug

[Simh] PDP-15 DECtapes

2011-10-11 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
Hi Bob I have been in contact with a swedish company that used a PDP-15 in development in the seventies. The machine itself is long