21 Jul
2014
21 Jul
'14
2:10 a.m.
At 02:34 PM 7/20/2014, Eric Smith wrote:
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Jerome H. Fine
<jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> wrote:
The VT8-E was a set of modules that turned a PDP-8 into a terminal.
In one mode, it DMA'd a chunk of memory and displayed the contents.
Interesting to fire it off when running memory checks, but that's about
it. It also had a bitmap font generator.
You could run an OS with the VT8-E running, but you couldn't run
anything like OS/8 with the VT8-E as the console as it ate too much
memory and wasn't in any way KL8 compatible.
I don't know anyting about a PDP-14, but it it used a VT8-E, it had to
be an Omnibus machine with Omnibus memory, so it could easily be turned
into a PDP-8/E with the right CPU card set.
-Rick
My question was not intended to be limited to the
VT14 AS SUPPLIED!
Nor was my answer.
Rather, could the VT14 have been relatively
easily modified (i.e.
without
> major changes AND without having to reverse the changes OTHER than
> to removing them with ONLY a screwdriver or other similar tool within
> about 30 minutes) to be able to run PDP-8 software.