© 2016 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
This work was performed under the auspices of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Earth Observing Laboratory (EOL) Summer Undergraduate Projects in Engineering Research (SUPER) program, which is managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (www.eol.ucar.edu).
The NCAR Terabit Memory System was a tape storage system used at NCAR from approximately the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. It was based around the Ampex TMS-4 Terabit Memory System, and included software which ran on a PDP/11 and CDC 6600/7600. Data stored on high-density TMS-4 tapes was stored in the TBM format; this repository includes utilities to examine and extract the contents of TBM archives.
$ git clone https://github.com/NCAR/TBMconv.git
tbmconv and tbmexplore have no external dependencies. Compile with:
$ cd TBMconv
$ make
A PDF document describing the TBM file format is available as a part of this project: tbm.pdf.