On 08/10/2016 08:03 PM, dwight wrote: > I guess I'm not with the rest. I'd prefer ascii HEX format. > > SIMH may not be around in 50 or 100 years.
50 years ago, ASCII (USASCII) wasn't terribly common, except on 7-level TTY. A lot of machines used 6-bit codes and IBM's new line of S/360 used EBCDIC. But I think I've run exactly one emulation on SIMH--IBM 1620--and it didn't involve tape. I chose the SIMH .TAP format because it was formally documented. I include a copy of the document with every tape job. --Chuck
