If you on a mac, I have mkcvt (TPC to TAP) converter at: 
http://wjh.conflux.net/ just below the links to the Archive.

Bill

On Apr 12, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Michael Richter wrote:

> I'm running RSTS/E 9.6 courtesy of Bill Heaton's excellent and helpful site.  
> I've got a few TPC files lying around that I've attached in SIMH and am 
> trying to mount in RSTS.  When I do this, I get the following error back from 
> RSTS:
> 
> $ mount _MM0
> ?Incorrect density or uninitialized tape
> 
> Looking at the TPC file itself, I'm not seeing the problem.  This is how the 
> tape starts (where ^<foo> is, of course, a single binary character):
> 
> p...@vol1source                           D%B44310011971                      
>       [email protected]         SOURCE00010001000100 8512
> 3 85123 000000DECRSTS/E           p...@hdr2u0051200000                     M  
>            00                            ^...@^@^...@^b
>  Name .Typ    Size    Prot     Name .Typ    Size    Prot    DU2:[170,42]
> INIPFX.MAC      81   < 60>    DSKDEF.MAC     101   < 60>
> DISKDF.MAC      31   < 60>    TAPDEF.MAC      16   < 60>
> INIDFN.MAC      31   < 60>    ODTPFX.MAC       3   < 60>
> SILNDX.MAC       7   < 60>    INIFIP.MAC     105   < 60>
> INIDSK.MAC      89   < 60>    INITTY.MAC      68   < 60>
> INIBOO.MAC      22   < 60>    INIDSI.MAC     211   < 60>
> INILOA.MAC      26   < 60>    INICOP.MAC     146   < 60>
> INIHAR.MAC     107   < 60>    ^...@^binidef.mac     295   < 60>
> INIBEG.MAC      12   < 60>    STACOM.MAC       9   < 60>
> INIBLD.MAC       4   < 60>    INISTA.MAC     199   < 60>
> INILDI.MAC       3   < 60>    FLC   .MAC       6   < 60>
> INILDR.MAC      35   < 60>    INIDST.MAC       3   < 60>
> INIINS.MAC     128   < 60>    INIONE.MAC     193   < 60>
> INIREF.MAC     103   < 60>    INICLN.MAC     177   < 60>
> INISET.MAC      71   < 60>    INIIDS.MAC      19   < 60>
> INIMCP.MAC       4   < 60>    INIODT.MAC     134   < 60>
> BLDBOT.MAC      16  ^...@^b < 60>    INIBBR.MAC       3   < 60>
> ROOT  .MAC     303   < 60>    INIPAT.MAC     105   < 60>
> INIIDE.MAC      16   < 60>    ASMONE.CMD       1   < 60>
> 
> To me this looks like a perfectly fine bit of data.  What am I doing wrong 
> when I'm mounting it?  Is this perhaps not a tape file but instead a 
> different class of device?
> 
> -- 
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