Fwd: Re: Looking for PDP8/A RL01 boot proms. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

21 Jul 2010

For those who use Firefox, Chrome, etc. browswers that support FTP you can also:

ftp://bickleywest.com/pdp8a_bootrom/

and right click on the files...

Cheers,
Lyle

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Subject: Re: Looking for PDP8/A RL01 boot proms.
Date: Wednesday 21 July 2010
From: Lyle Bickley <lbickley at bickleywest.com>
To: cctech at classiccmp.org

On Wednesday 21 July 2010, Jos Dreesen wrote:
...

 I am looking for a set of boot proms that would enable me to boot from the RL01 that is
connected to my PDP8/A
 That is, if such a boot prom actually exists.....

 And as a side note : why is the 8/A so unloved ?

 Big RL01 disk, 128k memory, fpp processor, all in one case. Try that with another -8 !

 Jos

I've uploaded the two bootroms you need to boot a RL01 on a PDP-8A using a KM8
(M8317). You'll need to burn the images into 82s126 chips. I've also uploaded the
corresponding level 8A schmatics/manuals which have this level of ROM described (IIRC on
the third page of the KM8 portion of the schematics).

You can pick up the images and manual by:

ftp bickleywest.com
user: anonymous
pswd: (email address)
cd pdp8a_bootrom
...
bye

Cheers,
Lyle
-- 
Lyle Bickley, AF6WS
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

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-- 
Lyle Bickley, AF6WS
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"