DECUS-5-12a loads an old obscure format of "packed" binary data. The format consists of blocks, which are loaded until one fails to have the correct checksum. The blocks each have a preamble, which encodes the 12 bit loading address, then the length in words, then the checksum. Each of these is encoded in the style of the BIN loader, with two data bytes per word. Once the address, length, and checksum are known, loading of the region described by address and length commences. These words are encoded into three byte frames: ab cde fgh mno pi jkl qr stu vwx to form two word pairs: abc def ghi jkl mno pqr stu vwx The third byte of the last frame for an odd-length block is not needed and not read/punched. As each word is stored, it is also added to the checksum. The checksum is accumulated as the sum of all the high and low six bit bytes from each word loaded. Vince