Re: copying hp 85 tape to another tape Message #3 Posted by Vassilis Prevelakis on 18 June 2003, 9:08 p.m., in response to message #1 by NORM
If you can go via a disk drive, life will be far easier since you can copy everything onto the floppy and then
back onto the new tape.
The reason why you are having trouble with the data file is
because the HP-85's LOAD and STORE commands are designed to deal with program files, not data, binary, graphic, etc files.
If you know the type and structure of the data file you can write a small basic program to read it in memory and then (after you change tapes) write it back onto tape.
I am amazed, however, that HP did not provide some sort of backup facility for base configuration HP85s. If anybody has another solution, I'd be delighted to hear it.
**vp
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