[TUHS] Interesting MIT links

[Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS]

Al Kossow wrote:
> Did all the file recovery documents (like the system names) make it
> into what the MIT Archives have, or just the tape images?

I didn't seem.  Often I had to infer which system a tape came from from
its contents.  Some tapes have photos of the label.

> There are problems with the images as well, like John Bordynuik
> inventing his own .tap format with bad blocks handled differently, all
> undocumented...

I have seen many variants in there, such as little or big endian record
size, records padded to 16 bits or not.  Some records have frames
dropped from the beginning or the end.

Also old ITS backup tapes were transferred from low density tapes to a
fewer number of high density tapes in the 80s, so sometimes same file
appear in multiple savesets on a single tape.