21 Jun
1999
21 Jun
'99
12:28 p.m.
Well, in a somewhat anti-climatic moment I hooked up the ASR-33 to my
PDP-8/e, switched on the 8/e, then switched on the tty to "line" and got
the expected idle hum. I keyed in the "simple test" that is in the
maintenence book which simply echos the keyboard to the printer, and that
worked, and then keyed in the "real" test which was to take the character
and add 1 to it and then echo it. (A DEC engineer explained to me that this
test actually proved the character typed went through the ALU versus a
M8650 with a short that just connected tx to rx). Everything worked as
expected. Now to get my paper tapes to run through it and boot Focal or
PAL8 the old fashioned way.
--Chuck