HP2000 Tape Conversion

From: Al Kossow <aek_at_spies.com>
Date: Fri Dec 5 17:34:40 2003

> Any ideas how to convert a tape cut on an HP2000 into the .tap format
> used by the SIMH hp2000 simulator?

Eric Smith has a program called tapecopy that will do this under Linux

.tap is <little-endian 32 bit record length> <data> <copy of record length>
with a single byte of 0 for a tape mark.

To create a .tap file from a real tape you:

read a tape record

if it is a tape mark, put out a byte of zero

else

write the record length
write the data
write the record length
Received on Fri Dec 05 2003 - 17:34:40 GMT