TDX Format Tapes?

From: Curt Vendel <curt_at_atarimuseum.com>
Date: Sat Sep 27 12:39:03 2003

Eric,

   You hit the head right on the nail ;-) All kidding aside, that is exactly it!


thanks to all for your input.


Curt

> > Anyone familiar with this format, I've got about 200 6" tapes that all say
> > TDX Format or TDX Tape.
> >
> > I've found nothing about it through Google, these were used on a Vax 11/780
> > under either VMS or UCB Unix 4.1, unclear as to which OS. Standard TU78
> > was used. This is all I know so far...
> >
> > Is this some kind of compression format or something? Any help on this
> > would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
>
> They may be tapes for a Sentry tester. A development system was available
> for VMS and there was a program to read and write TDX tapes for exchanging
> data and programs with the tester. If I remember correctly TDX stood for
> Tester Data eXchange.
>
> This may be a completely different TDX format. Is there any other information
> on the labels?
> --
> Eric Dittman
> dittman_at_dittman.net
Received on Sat Sep 27 2003 - 12:39:03 BST