Charles wrote:
SO I did that - the RL02 gently clucked and the Ready
light
flickered, and I heard one character print on the TTY across the
room. I rushed over and peered at the canary-yellow paper while
holding my breath (doing so helps 30 year old hardware and
software work better) and lo and behold... a single "."
Yee ha! I think it's up!
Advent has been updated ... so you don't need to hold your breath.
That is great that all your hardware works.
I hopefully typed "DIR" and hit the return -
and there came the
directory of my disk image, just like on SIMH except with all the
noise and oily scent of a Teletype.
:) :) :)
Has anybody made yet a IDE drive adapter for the PDP8 while we still
can get smallish drives?
-Charles
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