[HECnet] installing LPs on RSX

[Dave McGuire]

On 04/27/2015 06:39 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>>     Uh-oh...That "HDR1" business looks like part of an ANSI tape label,
>>>> not a filename.  What do you think?
>>>
>>> Definitely a corrupted tape.
>>
>>    Yup...After testing several other images from the trailing-edge
>> archive, I'm finding the same sort of mess.  I knew the BP2 v2.7 image
>> was trashed, but it looks like quite a few others are as well.  The
>> f77_v5_4.tpc one is corrupt too.
>>
>>    What a mess.
>>
>>    Thanks for your help in diagnosing this.
>>
>>    At least some earlier releases are intact, but do you know if any of
>> those newer ones have been archived intact anywhere?  Do you have them?
> 
> I have most of them, but not BP2 V2.7. :-(

  Oh, very good news...To bad about BP2 2.7, but that's ok, hopefully
it'll turn up somewhere.

  Can you share the tapes that you have?

> I've also written a tool that can repair those broken tapes if they are
> in BRU format. Unfortunately, a few (including the BP2 tape) are in DOS
> format, and that format is much more difficult to repair.

  Hmm, very nice!  Would you be willing to share that as well?

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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