On 2/13/2016 6:33 AM, Christian Corti wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2016, Christian Corti wrote:
>> I have a 7970B (-236) with options 127, 006, 007, 012 and 023.
>
> According to the HP 1000 Peripherals Selection Guide from 1982, page 16,
> option 236 specifies an 800bpi master magnetic tape subsystem
On 02/14/2016 02:08 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
I have never heard of 200bpi or 556bpi for anything other than 7
track. I cannot imagine why anyone would ever produce such a thing.
The only density I have ever heard of as being available on both 7
track and 9 track is 800BPI NRZI, from any manufacture
Hi,
Does anyone know of a tool which can convert between Motorola's FFP
(Fast Floating Point) float format and IEEE754?
I'm trying to reverse-engineer some ancient 68k code which uses the FFP
library, but a load of the floating point constants have been hard-coded
as hex constants, which is makin
On 14/02/16 23:56, Philip Pemberton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of a tool which can convert between Motorola's FFP
> (Fast Floating Point) float format and IEEE754?
>
> I'm trying to reverse-engineer some ancient 68k code which uses the FFP
> library, but a load of the floating point consta
On 2/14/2016 5:36 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 02/14/2016 02:08 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
>
>> I have never heard of 200bpi or 556bpi for anything other than 7
>> track. I cannot imagine why anyone would ever produce such a thing.
>> The only density I have ever heard of as being available on both 7
>>
On 02/14/2016 05:36 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 02/14/2016 02:08 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
I have never heard of 200bpi or 556bpi for anything other
than 7
track. I cannot imagine why anyone would ever produce
such a thing.
The only density I have ever heard of as being available
on both 7
track an
On 02/14/2016 06:13 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
Maybe some yahoo decided to write over the first file of that SVR4 tape
at higher density so as not to clobber the files after it. Smart, so as
not to clobber the other stuff, but crazy. Or it may have been just a
case of writing that first file, with
On 02/14/2016 03:38 PM, James Gessling wrote:
In honor of Valentine's day and all the great ladies that I've worked
with over the years, I for one had a small part in a romance by setting
up a VMS account for the geologist in our department after listening to
his complaints about how useless com
