25 May
2011
25 May
'11
9:15 a.m.
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 5/25/11 9:34 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
This thread got me looking for the PDP-8 equivalent (thinking back to
Dave Ahl's original (pre-MSBASIC) edition of "101 BASIC Computer
Games") and I found this...
http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp8/papertapeImages/russ.ucs.indiana.edu…
... but every copy I've found has what looks like some corruption
halfway through (just below the label "FOGO2").
Has anyone ever gotten a working version of this? The comments up top
suggest a rare but not-impossible-to-assemble set of hardware
requirements (especially in emulation)...
/EDUSYSTEM 25 BASIC IS FOR THE PDP-8/E, -8/F, -8/M, -8/I, -8/L WITH
/12K OR MORE MEMORY AND EITHER THE DC02 OR PT08(KL8E) OPTION
/AND TC08 DECTAPE CONTROLLER WITH TU56 OR TWO TU55 TRANSPORT(S)
/NOTE: START ADDRESS IS 15200.
A bit of brief reading of the code suggests that it could handle up to
8 terminals.
I don't happen to have a TC08 (only a TD8E), so it's unlikely I'll
ever take it any farther than emulation, presuming an intact version
of it is still floating around out there.
-ethan
You are either unaware of Multi-User Basic under RT-11
or you may have not remembered.
?About MU-Basic, another listmember just sent me a copy. ?I've not seen it
in about twenty years, and never on one of my own systems. ?I know what I'll
be doing this afternoon! :-)