pdp8a assistance tapes terminals i dunno?

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 02:35:29PM -0600, Adrian Stoness wrote: Joining this thread late so summarizing what I have seen so far. I can make you some tapes. Some paper tapes are fun. For me the novelty would weare off before getting through all you listed so like others I recommend getting setup to be able to send images from a PC. If you still want tapes email me direct and we can discuss which etc. Also if you get a current loop to RS-232 adapter you can punch tapes on your ASR-33. You will then need a real serial port on a PC to do 110 baud. Old PC with motherboard ports work and I have a cardbus/PCMCIA card for an older laptop that works also. I assume your h10 is a Heathkit punch on some Heathkit computer. On my PDP-8 I wrote a little program that punched whatever was received over the console port to allow me to punch tapes. You probably could do something similar with the Heathkit. If your console port doesn't have flow control you will need to do have a way to rate limit the data sent. Do you have mass storage on this machine? I have programs to dump and restore images of the media I have functional on my machines. If what you have matches it can allow you to write or copy media. It also has a simple send paper tape and dumb terminal but http://www.pdp8online.com/ftp/software/dumprest/ You have the writups for these? Some I didn't find online. Do you have any information on what they do? Some other people were working with you on this. Did you get it straightened out? If you haven't I can put the card from my 8/A and check the switches.