I have now had enough time to spend on my 36-bit tape tool, back10, that it seems to be time to announce an update.
The code can (still) be found at: http://www.pdc.kth.se/~bygg/tops/back10.tar For now it can: * read and extract files from backup-10 tapes. * read and (somewhat) extract files from dumper tapes. At the moment it writes one full page (512 words) for each logical tape record, ignoring the file length meta-data. This will be fixed "soon". * read and extract files from failsafe (!) tapes. One such tape is AP-D481A-SB_1978.tap (BASIC-10 V17E 1978 from trailing-edge). * write backup-10 tapes, in both interchange and native modes. * examine tapes, both show the record structure (-s) and peek at data in various formats (-p). If there are other formats, it should be fairly straight-forward to add them. This is still very much a work-in-progress. For instance, the manual is not yet done. In fact, it does not even exist. Enjoy, --Johnny _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh