Recovering 1969 Honeywell Paper tapes
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Recovering 1969 Honeywell Paper tapes |
by Bill Degnan - 07/22/2020 12:22 |
 Mysterious papertape with hand-printed text that reads "Start 1000 tty RUN -> 90" Click image for larger view.
This thread details the technical aspects of the data recovery itself, if you want to learn the background story, visit https://www.kennettclass...ata-from-lunar-mission/ The short story is we received an ASCII papterape proported to have had been created containing a "data dump" from the 1969 American Apollo lunar landing. Teh tape was generated using a Honeywell DDP-516 minicomputer located at a NASA facility in White Sands, New Mexico. Apparently an operator made a personal backup of the lunar landing data (?)  Three tapes were supplied in addition to the Lunar Landing tape. The other's are labeled "ABCT" and "8X MEDIC" Click image for larger view.
Using the DSI NC-2400 reader/punch I set it up to pull in the tapes, I created a dump file that appears to be accurate, at least a good first try. 21KB. Stand by for more! Reply |
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Tapes Archived |
by Bill Degnan - 09/14/2020 11:38 |
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The archiving is complete. You can download these tapes and read them into simH or other Honeywell DDP 300/500/ class emulator. Note that the binary tapes available from the link above are only viewable in a hex editor or directly downloaded into simH or actual Honeywell DDP system.
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