I’d like to replicate some of what I did…back in the day. But don’t know how much more effort I’ll put into this. Googling doesn’t help much. We processed alot of tapes.
It would be cool to read a IBM EBCDIC tape. Convert to a ASCII record and write to disk. I remember it being kinda slow. This would later added to a “Data Boss” (I do have part of a listing with some of that code) proprietary database.
But I don’t have any old Tape processing listings. Or any other old Basic-Plus listings. At least none that I’ve found so far. his is shocking to me. I have no listings from a job that I actively sought, working on the computer system I wanted to? And the errors I get aren’t helping either. I’m just guessing and trying random things. For example I define “set tu enable” in the simh startup. So are the devices TU0: or TU1:. No…I totally guess by trying devices I’ve seen in a book somewhere.
There is a Google RSTS group that had 2 questions in 2020…same in 2021, no questions in 2022 and whose last post was this last Jan…with no response. So that doesn’t sound promising.
sim> show tu0
TU0 attached to CUST-TAPE-1000.aws, write enabled, TE16
WTH is a TE16? Is the device TE0:? No !
I try…
ASSIGN MM0
and…
110 OPEN “MM0:” FOR INPUT AS FILE #1, MODE 32%
And it accepts it and kinda works but I get errors
It’d be nice to see these controllers correspond to these devices. But so far I’m left to guess.