PCjs Machines

Data on tapes in the "Absolute Format" is organized into blocks; each block begins with
a 6-byte header:

    2-byte signature (0x0001)
    2-byte block length (N + 6, because it includes the 6-byte header)
    2-byte load address

followed by N data bytes.  If N is zero, then the 2-byte load address is the exec address,
unless the address is odd (usually 1).  DEC's Absolute Loader jumps to the exec address
in former case, halts in the latter.

All values are stored "little endian" (low byte followed by high byte), just like the
PDP-11's memory architecture.

After the data bytes, there is a single checksum byte.  The 8-bit sum of all the bytes in
the block (including the header bytes and checksum byte) should be zero.

ANOMALIES: Tape files don't always begin with a signature word, so I allow any number of
leading zeros before the first signature.  Tape files don't always end cleanly either, so as
soon as I see an invalid signature, I break out of the loop without signalling an error, as
long as at least ONE block was successfully processed.  In fact, it's possible that as
soon as a block with ZERO data bytes is encountered, processing is supposed to stop, but
I haven't examined enough tapes (or the Absolute Loader code) to know for sure.

Load the program using any standard absolute loader.