BART and PDP8's?

< On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Seth J. Morabito wrote: < < > A few years ago, I heard a rumor bandied about somewhere on Usenet tha < > BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit, a rail system running around some of th < > San Francisco Bay) was, even to this day, controlled by pdp8/e systems < > < > Can anyone lend any credibility to this rumor? Any chance of scoring < > some PDP8 equipment if they decide to upgrade their system sometime so Below is the header for a program to do several things. A contact, it make be severely dated and verification. This was gotten off one of the PDP-8 archive sites, it was over a years ago so I've forgotton which one though I know most are still there. below the program header is further information on PDP-8s from PDP8-lovers list. Allison /***********************************************************************/ /* */ /* Program: PAL (BART version) */ /* File: pal.c */ /* Author: Gary A. Messenbrink &lt;gary(a)netcom.com&gt; */ /* */ /* Purpose: A 2 pass PDP-8 pal-like assembler. */ /* */ /* PAL(1) */ /* */ /* NAME */ /* pal - a PDP/8 pal-like assembler. */ /* */ /* SYNOPSIS: */ /* pal [ -d -l -p -r -x ] inputfile */ /* */ /* DESCRIPTION You can get information about the pdp8-lovers mailing list by sending an email message to pdp8-lovers-info(a)zach1.tiac.net or by sending email to pdp8-lovers-request(a)zach1.tiac.net with just the word "info" in the body. You can get the most recent version of the PDP-8 FAQ from: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/alt.sys.pdp8 ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers/dec-faq ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/pub/usenet/news.answers/alt.sys.pdp8 ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-8/docs http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/dec-faq/top.html http://www.smartpages.com/bngfaqs/alt/sys/pdp8/top.html http://www.cs.ruu.nl/wais/html/na-dir/dec-faq/.html