From: John Wilson Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 12:33 AM > On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 09:49:49PM -0700, Marc Verdiell wrote: >> Your program worked beautifully writing a SIMH format file on my HP 88780 >> tape!
> The difference is that SIMH's native format pads records to even sizes before > appending the "length" longword, and E11's doesn't. But most popular tape > labeling schemes will always produce even-lengthed records, so there's no > difference. Of course, that's mostly true for those machines restricted to silly octets as their native data representation. :-> Rich Rich Alderson Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer Living Computer Museum 2245 1st Avenue S Seattle, WA 98134 mailto:ri...@livingcomputermuseum.org http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/