Re: [Simh] 8" Floppy disk image getting HALT error

2017-07-14 Thread Kevin Handy
Just did a little research on WPS-8 floppy format, just to satisfy my curiosity. WPS-8 stores data on an RX-50 as a series of 12-bit words, using two bytes on the floppy to store a word. The low 8 bits goes into the 1st byte, and the upper 4 go into the second btype. 4 bits in the secnd byte are

Re: [Simh] Simh and historical Fortran in the news

2017-07-14 Thread Richard Cornwell
Hi, > On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:46:04 -0600 > "Nelson H. F. Beebe" wrote: > > > There is an interesting new journal article published today about > > the attempt to recover and reconstruct the first Fortran compiler. > > Simh, and some of the members of the SIMH list, get mention in the > > article