Johnny Eriksson responded to me privately, and I answered him the same way.
Since there has been further discussion since then, I'm going to make this
public.
Since that conversation, I've thought of another objection: No one using
a Tops-10 or TOPS-20 backup tool will be able to read tape images
Rich Alderson wrote:
> Since that conversation, I've thought of another objection: No one using
> a Tops-10 or TOPS-20 backup tool will be able to read tape images in the
> ANSI ASCII format, since both BACKUP and DUMPER force, repeat *force*, the
> drive into coredump format, for both input and o