Hi all,
Just stumbled across this forum tonight and joined right up! Looks like a wealth of info and knowledgeable members.
I'm a DEC fan as I 'grew up' on them in middle and high school; PDP-8/E running TSS/8. ASR33 with 110 baud acoustic modems... ah, those were heady days:D
I've restored a PDP-8/M with 8K of core; passes the DEC diagnostics, but I'm limited to my PC (serial port) as the sole peripheral.
I rescued it over ten years ago when it died while running a machine tool at my old company. They replaced it with a PC But, hey, I got it for free and brought it back to life:D
My goal is to get TSS/8 up and running (I've got all the source code and an assembler that runs on a PC), but I need another 4K of core and a some kind of disk drive (DF32 is my dream).
I also have a running PDP-8/A with an RL02 running OS/8, a DECWRITER II, and a Printronix 132 column line printer. Probably going to have to kludge the RL02 onto the 8/M if I ever hope to run TSS/8...
Thanks for listening to my ramblings
Mike
Just stumbled across this forum tonight and joined right up! Looks like a wealth of info and knowledgeable members.
I'm a DEC fan as I 'grew up' on them in middle and high school; PDP-8/E running TSS/8. ASR33 with 110 baud acoustic modems... ah, those were heady days:D
I've restored a PDP-8/M with 8K of core; passes the DEC diagnostics, but I'm limited to my PC (serial port) as the sole peripheral.
I rescued it over ten years ago when it died while running a machine tool at my old company. They replaced it with a PC But, hey, I got it for free and brought it back to life:D
My goal is to get TSS/8 up and running (I've got all the source code and an assembler that runs on a PC), but I need another 4K of core and a some kind of disk drive (DF32 is my dream).
I also have a running PDP-8/A with an RL02 running OS/8, a DECWRITER II, and a Printronix 132 column line printer. Probably going to have to kludge the RL02 onto the 8/M if I ever hope to run TSS/8...
Thanks for listening to my ramblings
Mike