PDP-8 Straight 8 restoration

Brings back memories!? My first 6800 cross assembler came to me as 2000 Fortran source code punch cards. We had an F4R4 compiler on the PDP11 but the card reader was on the PDP-8. The only common peripheral was paper tape.? One night, the Chief Engineer and I fed the cards into the PDP8 card reader, punched tape, and fed it directly into the PDP11 tape reader.? X-on X-off was handled by hitting the stop and continue buttons on the PDP8 as the punch was faster than the reader.? The buffer was a pile of paper tape in the floor, which we carefully prevented from tangling.? Somehow OS/8 managed to not crash with the constant start/stop. Nobody was more surprised than we were when the output compiled perfectly on the PDP11 and we made our first 6800 program - a ham repeater controller! The Chief Engineer is still alive - I was at his 95th birthday last year and we often have fun talking about the good old days! cheers, Nigel Johnson On 29/03/2020 16:59, Diane Bruce via cctalk wrote: -- Nigel Johnson MSc., MIEEE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! You can reach me by voice on Skype: TILBURY2591 If time travel ever will be possible, it already is. Ask me again yesterday This e-mail is not and cannot, by its nature, be confidential. En route from me to you, it will pass across the public Internet, easily readable by any number of system administrators along the way. Nigel Johnson <nw.johnson at ieee.org> Please consider the environment when deciding if you really need to print this message