pdp8a assistance tapes terminals i dunno?

Adrian Stoness wrote: You need to compile it, eg from the source at http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/PDP-8/rsend.c or Kevin McQuiggin's website. Running PuTTY or something similar, on a laptop, connected to he PDP-8/A? You need to be running something on the 8/A as well, to talk to it. Unless you have loaded something there, it will be doing absolutely nothing. Until you load some software -- whether that's the RIM loader, a little test program toggled in, or an OS, the PDP-8/A is no more than a noisy room heater, a box of completely dumb unprogrammed elecrical parts. Effectively bare metal. You need to have the rimloader running in the PDP-8. You put that in manually, from the keypad on the panel. Then you use that to load any tapes that are in RIM format, from a TTY with a tape reader (or RIM-format tape image files from a laptop running rsend or equivalent).