> On Feb 21, 2018, at 3:25 PM, Rich Alderson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> From: Paul Koning
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 6:41 AM
>
>> And while there is roughly-accurate simulation of DECtape in SIMH (presumably
>> for TOPS-10 overlapped seek to work?)
>
> It's not for Tops-10. SimH only provides the KS-10 processor[1], so DECtape
> is
> not a possible peripheral.
Ok, then it could be for VMS, which also does this (via Andy's unsupported
driver). I don't know of PDP-11 or other minicomputer systems that do DECtape
overlapped seek. I suppose it could be for artistic verisimilitude...
paul
