[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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