[Info-vax] Hobbyist licences for VAX

gah4 gah4 at u.washington.edu
Wed Apr 13 21:40:49 EDT 2022


On Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 4:47:52 PM UTC-7, Bob Eager wrote:

(snip)

> The reason is that I'm simulating an OEM of the IBM 3340, which allows 
> variable sized sectors on each track, as long as the total (with headers 
> etc.) doesn't exceed 13kB. So each simulated track needs to include a 
> single simulated home block, and a variable number of sector headers.
 
I thought the 3340 was FBA, but I have never seen or used one.

There is an IBM standard for virtual CKD disks used by the P/370 and
successor systems, and is almost the same as that used by Hercules.

I thought other emulators also used that one.





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