HP2000 Tape Conversion

From: Kevin Handy <kth_at_srv.net>
Date: Sat Dec 6 12:49:05 2003

Al Kossow wrote:

>>Any ideas how to convert a tape cut on an HP2000 into the .tap format
>>used by the SIMH hp2000 simulator?
>>
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>Eric Smith has a program called tapecopy that will do this under Linux
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>.tap is <little-endian 32 bit record length> <data> <copy of record length>
>with a single byte of 0 for a tape mark.
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I think it is more than one zero byte. I believe you need a full 32
bit wide zero (4 bytes) for the simh tap format.

>To create a .tap file from a real tape you:
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>read a tape record
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>if it is a tape mark, put out a byte of zero
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>else
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>write the record length
>write the data
>write the record length
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Received on Sat Dec 06 2003 - 12:49:05 GMT