Haven't seen such a thing, but given a decent size disk, reading a tape and
producing the corresponding SIMH style *.tap file would be easy enough. On
RSTS you could write it in BASIC/PLUS (or FORTH :-) )
paul
> On Jun 14, 2024, at 4:51 PM, Jacob Ritorto via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Just got a real (Cipher M990 on TS05-emulating controller) tape drive
> running and would like to make exact copies of some [9-track] tapes "to
> guard against disaster." Probably will also do some imaging, so bonus if
> the candidate program can handle that too.
>
> This is on an 11/34; I don't have a good q-bus tape controller yet or I'd
> try it on uVAX with NetBSD or something less "exciting" :)
>
> Anyone know of good programs to do this with only one tape drive? Don't
> care which operating system.
>
> Been looking through DECUS archives but have found nothing yet (manually
> reading thru - 1/3 of the way done, maybe there's a better way to scan
> these?).
>
> thx
> jake
