23 Oct
2018
23 Oct
'18
12:11 a.m.
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 11:39 PM Carlos E Murillo-Sanchez via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Greetings all...
I have been pondering something and would love to receive feedback from
you. The thing
is, I would like to have something pdp8-ish that would allow me to play
a little bit
with the programming languages that were available for these machines,
FORTRAN 4K and
FORTRAN IV in particular. Now, I would love to be able to time some
FORTRAN jobs just
to get an idea about what it was like back then. I am aware of PiDP-8,
simh, as well as
SBC6120, SBC6120RBC.
Carlos,
My opinion....Get a PiDP8. They're great for so many things including
testing, file transfer, and making disks. I have mine set to boot into simH
via serial terminal so it will immediately act like a PDP 8 running OS/8.
Once you get a working real PDP8, whatever, the type you can use the PiDP8
safely to experiment, compare and contrast, build media, etc
I have documented the process on my web site, and there are many others who
have also done this.
Bill