19 Jun
2005
19 Jun
'05
1:18 a.m.
On Jun 18 2005, 11:10, Joe R. wrote:
I brought home my PDP-8 yesterday.
Nice haul :-)
I also have a question about the diagnostic paper
tapes. Does
anyone have
a ROM emulator or other way to load the diagnostics
without using a
PT
reader? Yes, I know there are some SIMPLE diagnostics
that can be
loaded
from the Programmer's Panal but I concerned about
the more extensive
diagnostics. In fact, I'm wondering if anyone has tried burning the
diagnostics into PROMs and installing them in place of the Boot Roms
on the
M8317 card.
The best way is to keep tape image files, or just plain binaries, on a
PC (or whatever) and load them in over a serial line. Have a look at
the Kevin McQuiggin's PDP-8 page at Highgate:
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/pdp8/
Kevin keeps a mirror of David Gesswein's site which has lots of
diagnostics and documentation, but there are more diagnostic tapes on
Aaron Nabil's site at www.pdp8.org
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York