[cctalk] Re: NRAO Data tapes

On 2/9/24 10:16 AM, Gary Sparkes via cctalk wrote: Do we have anyone who can read these tapes? Maybe Al at CHM? He may have an interest in them for their historical value. I could read them.  I'm not as busy as Al, and I'm only a couple miles from his lab in Fremont.  If the tapes are

[cctalk] Re: Getting floppy images to/from real floppy disks.

On 5/30/23 10:08 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: "Sneakernet" or whatever, I'm still impressed that I can spend USD$3 for a 64GB microSD card and store the entire code output of my life and still have lots of room left over for photos of my dogs. --Chuck No kidding.  That 64GB fingernail

[cctalk] Re: LCM news?

On 10/24/22 5:00 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote: I remember getting such a thing months ago, but not recently. I got one today. When I did some looking it appeared to me that essentially all of what's online is simulators, not real machines. That's nice but not very special; it's

Re: 9 track tapes and block sizes

> On 10/2/20 1:42 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: > > >/Of course, that scheme breaks programs that use tape images but don't > >/>/expect enormous or "negative" record lengths. / > Those would already be broken with Bob's use of large negative numbers for > physical end of > tape and 'bad

Re: 9 track tapes and block sizes

On 10/1/20 11:40 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 12:05 AM Tom Hunter via cctalk > mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: > > I have never figured out why Bob Supnik defined the magnetic tape > containers (TAP files) with the one byte padding for odd length > records. >

Re: 9 track tapes and block sizes

> On 17/09/2020 07:38, Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk wrote: > >/The docs for SIMH .TAP files are here:- > >/>//>/http://simh.trailing-edge.com/docs/simh_magtape.pdf />//>/be careful > >as there are also non-SIMH .tap formats />//>/In the IBM Mainframe emulation > >world there is also .AWS, an IBM

Re: 9 track tapes and block sizes

> Acoustically, the best tapes were the short-record "stranger" tapes. > All sorts of interesting noise. I could tell from across the room when > someone was running the tape section of the Navy audit tests for COBOL > just by the sounds. > MALET was also pretty good, reading and writing a bunch

Re: Tape Storage Rack WAS: RE: 1/2" tape storage

> While on the subject of tape storage anyone know if it is still possible to > get desktop/table top wire bins to hold tapes in canisters and/or reels? Not > that I have that many tapes or anything like that. This would be more for > display purposes than anything else. > > Something akin to

Re: %20 nonsense

> whats with the weird tag on this thread? Oops, sorry. Clicking on an address in the mailing list viewed as a web page via http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2019-April tries to fire up MacOS X Mail, which I don't want because I use Thunderbird.  So I "Copy Email Address" and paste it

Re:%20Storage%20for%201/2"%20open%20reel%20tape

> >>/I hit on the idea of using 16mm move film plastic "cans". Much to my > >>/>>/surprise, I found that there is still an active market for these > >>things. / > On Mon, 8 Apr 2019, Kevin Monceaux via cctalk wrote: > >/My small 16mm collection is stored on an open reel tape cart. / > I wonder

Re: Storage for 1/2" open reel tape

> I've noted earlier that the vinyl "hanger strips" for 1/2" magnetic tape > have been degrading, becoming brittle and simply breaking away, > sometimes in small particles. I have about a hundred tapes from various contributors, and have noticed no age-related [1] deterioration of the seals,

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*Eric Smith *writes: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:18 AM Al Kossow > wrote: > > >/Does it have the 800 bpi option board? />// > I haven't yet unboxed it. I took photos of the outside of the destroyed box > to send to the shipper. The front bottom

Re: ISO: Tape Seal Belts

Ahh, someone crazier than myself, who just moved about five miles with only 100 tapes and 1 tape drive, and no tape racks.  Some are auto-load, some are the hanger-seals (belts) you mention, some are in cannisters. -- Jeff Woolsey {{woolsey,jlw}@jlw,first.last@{gmail,jlw}}.com Nature abhors

Re: Line printer art: (was Re: tape baking)

You know, I have about four different tapes with those Harbison posters on them. Different formats, too. They're probably ubiquitous by now. For those of you without printers who still want to see the posters, asciitopgm from the netpbm package can be coaxed to do this. See