Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 11:32:13 -0600 From: Kyle Owen <kylevowen at gmail.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: Booting OS/8 on a PDP-8/E from a PC

I've got a few spare locations in the handler. I'll look into the DP278 and see what I can do.

Also, I had considered a handler version that operates on address 03/04 by using some clever escape sequences, much like AT modem commands. You'd need to use it with a special terminal program, or modify the server to output non-handler messages to a pseudo-TTY that another terminal emulator is connected to. This way, *anyone* with a PDP-8 that has just one asynchronous serial card can boot OS/8!