I guess I'm not with the rest. I'd prefer ascii HEX format. SIMH may not be around in 50 or 100 years.
Dwight ________________________________ From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2016 12:38:51 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Tape imaging On 08/10/2016 11:34 AM, Rich Alderson wrote: >> From: Chuck Guzis > It's too bad that the Time Capsule File System invented more than > twenty years ago at MIT never took off: > > http://www.boogles.com/local/papers/tcfs-thesis/thesis.html Yup, I recall seeing that. In my case, I append (after the .tap EOI marker) my metadata records, including a transfer log generated in real time. Most SIMH software doesn't look past EOI if reading, so that's okay. --Chuck
