11 Jun
2016
11 Jun
'16
1:04 a.m.
Hi Josh,
I don't know if this will help you, but a guy in Sweden made a PDP-8/I out
of a Raspberry Pi which he calls a PiDP-8/I with a custom made authentic
looking slightly smaller version of the PDP-8/I front panel. The following
url describes the OS-8 he used on simh running on a version of linux on the
PI.
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http://obsolescence.wix.com/obsolescence#!pidp-software--documentation/c1btd
Maybe the OS-8 information on that site might
help you. I don't think I
have ever heard of MultOS-8, but I'd like to be kept in the loop on your
project and learn more about it. I haven't bought my Pi 3 yet, but I'm
planning on getting it soon to finish my PiDP-8/I Kit and get it
operational. I pray you can find everything you need and get logged into
your MultOS-8 installation. Take care my friend.
Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
https://www.pdp8online.com/pdp8cgi/os8_html?act=dir;fn=images/os8/multos8.rk
05;sort=name and the manual here:
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Josh
Dersch
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 11:18 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: RE: Anyone have MULTOS/8 running on SimH?
To follow up to my own post; I tried it again at home this evening, on my
Mac. And
it works perfectly. My machine at work is a
Windows box; I'm guessing there's something
odd with the keyboard handling
for the Ctrl-H sequence on SIMH Windows but
that's
mere speculation at this point...
So, problem solved... kind of.
- Josh
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From: cctalk [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] on behalf of Josh Dersch
[JoshD at
LivingComputerMuseum.org]
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 4:24 PM
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: Anyone have MULTOS/8 running on SimH?
I'm investigating getting MULTOS/8 running on the 8/e here at the museum
and I
thought I'd start by getting acquainted with it on
> SIMH.
>
> I've picked up the disk pack from Dave Gesswein's site here:
http://www.pdp8.net/os/multos8/
MULTOS as currently configured on the RK05 image appears to be set up for
two
terminals and everything listed in BUILD looks to
agree with respect to the SimH hardware configuration.
I set up a
password file per the instructions, and after I set the DATE, I do an:
.R MULTOS
And am greeted with:
HELLO !
THIS IS THE MULTOS/8 MULTI-USER OS/8 TIMESHARING SYSTEM CREATED BY
COMPUTER
METHODS
7822 OAKLEDGE ROAD
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 84121, USA
PHONE 801-942-8000
PLEASE INPUT TIME IN 24-HOUR FORMAT
(E.G. 0925 FOR 9:25 AM AND 1935 FOR 7:35 PM):
1601
THANK YOU !
THE SYSTEM IS NOW TIMESHARING
TYPE CONTROL/H TO LOG ON.
At this point, the system becomes unresponsive; CTRL-H appears to have no
effect.
AC and MQ seem to be incrementing over time
as the docs describe.
I've poked around and in PARAM.PG, the address of TTY #2 is set to 32
(VT78?),
rather than the 40 I'd expect. I changed this and
reassembled the JOBS device handler, and then used
BUILD to rebuild the
system using it. I'm still getting the same behavior,
however...
I have a bit of experience with OS/8 (but I'm not an expert) and nearly
zero
experience with MULTOS, so before I start debugging in
SimH I thought I'd check to see that I'm not
doing anything intensely
stupid here...
Thanks!
Josh
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