> 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

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