--- Mike Cruse <mcruse(a)acm.org> wrote: I've had an -8/i since high school. I rescued it from a public school locally (I already had an -8/L, so I knew what I was looking at). Mine came with 4K, a DF-32 master and two slave disks. I have no expectations that the media are any good at this point, but the last time I fired it up, the controller was working enough that I could read the status register and watch the rotation sensor on the console via a tiny toggle-in program I wrote to check it (I had to rebuild the rotation sensor on one drive because it caught fire in the housing!) There are some docs on Highgate and you might be able to find the DEC 1970 Small Computer Handbook for the basics. If you care to try out any papertape or DECtape programming systems, you'll want the Programming Handbooks. There's good info in those on how to load and start FOCAL, etc. Have fun with it; I wish I had reasonable peripherals on mine. The best I can do is move my PC8 to it and load paper tapes faster. I have a TD8E and a TU56, but nothing for an older machine. I suppose I could always wrap one up - I do have enough spare parts, just not enough spare time. -ethan ===== Even though my old e-mail address is no longer going to vanish, please note my new public address: erd(a)iname.com The original webpage address is still going away. The permanent home is: http://penguincentral.com/ See http://ohio.voyager.net/ for details. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/