Thank you for that ,Ken - good to have in the pocket! I tried Johnny's tpw under 2.11BSD and it achieved writing simh TAP to a real TK50. So I'm booting real hardware from that sept 1992 rsts/e image now!
On Sun, 24 May 2026 at 16:11, Kenneth Gober via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 2026 at 6:18 PM Jacob Ritorto via cctalk < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > So there's RSX .TAP format that works with VCP. > > Then there's this simh .TAP that doesn't. > > > > Do you have a Unix or Linux system handy? I have a "vtape" utility that > will write > files to a SIMH virtual tape file, and an "unvtape" utility that does the > reverse: > > https://github.com/kgober/Tools/tree/master/vtape > > If your SIMH virtual tape contains just one file then unvtape will extract > it. If your > SIMH virtual tape contains multiple files with multiple block/record sizes > unvtape > can probably extract that as well, but you may lose important record > boundary > information. > > -ken >
