TU-58 is a tape cartridge, but it is block addressable like a disk (or floppy).
512 blocks of 512 bytes. Normally an image of it would be a .dsk and not a .tap.
VMS .tap images are (probably) 9 track magnetic tape images that would be
mounted on a TU or TM device type, not TU-58.
Don
On 3/23/2016 3:21 PM, Mark Pizzolato wrote:
The all of the VAX (and PDP11) simulators in the current simh codebase at
HTTPS://github.com/simh/simh have TU58 device support. The console devices on
the VAX750 and VAX730 simulators can boot from bootable media (device TD as I
recall). All simulators have simulated TU58s connected via simulated DL serial
ports with the device known as TDC. Up to 32 TU58 drives are supported.
- Mark
I can't seem to be able to find anywhere, and I looked at some of my own
previous posts as well as others on this list; about tu-58 tapes.
Now there are some VMS versions 3 and 4 and such that have a .TAP
extension. They are copies of actual cartridges. For vax or possibly pdp11.
How do you set the vax for those tapes? I have looked at simh docs and tried
at tu (or tk) tk0 and it seems to work but set doesn't work. Here's a link to
that page.
http://iamvirtual.ca/VAX11/VAX-11-software.html
Does simh emulate this tape? I'm sure most are familiar with this page.
Bill
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