From: "Ethan Dicks" <dickset(a)amanda.spole.gov> I made a nice little collection of software by copying the ones at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-8/diskimag… onto actual floppies. Loved the games disk images there, too :-). You can also Google around for "dm1011.zip" and you'll turn up several other places where these disk images live. They are Teledisk images, so you'll need a box with 5.25" diskettes and DOS. Mine has no hard disk, but I don't miss it much. The floppies hold about the same as a DECtape would have (but are much faster :-)). If you want to run FOCAL on your DECmate, I can tell you which word to patch :-). Vince

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 06:50:23PM -0700, Rich Bramante wrote: Yep. That's just a standard LK201... borrow one from a Rainbow, a Pro 3xx, a VT220, VT240... They aren't as easy to find as they used to be, but a replacement shouldn't be expensive. In general, OS/8 (OS/278) devices are 4 chars... 2 chars for driver name, one for controller letter, and one for device number... With the exception of the RL01 driver (RL8A, and perhaps the one for the DECmate I)*, it's of the form 'DDcu:', so depending on the name of the driver for the RX50, it might be RXA1: I just can't remember off the top of my head what the driver is named. RESORC will help you out. Since my DECmate II has an RD31 in it, I've never given one a spin with dual RX50, so I'm not sure if your second unit will show up as, say RXA2: and RXA3:, or RXB0: and RXB1: Perhaps there's someone here who knows. Hour for hour, nearly all of my OS/8 experience is with OMNIBUS machines (but I'm rapidly building lots of time with my SBC-6120). -ethan * For perfectly logical reasons, even though it breaks with convention, the RL01 units are RL0A:, RL0B:, RL0C: for the three partitions of the pack in drive unit 0. -- Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 13-Aug-2004 02:20 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -67.7 F (-55.4 C) Windchill -107.1 F (-77.3 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 13.8 kts Grid 115 Barometer 677.6 mb (10715. ft) Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html

Trying to help out a person with a DecMate II but no old PC to deal with the teledisk images. He says: "Do you think you might be able to make me an OS/78 disk that has the standard PDP-8 software development tools, like PAL8, FortranII, and Teco?" Is there any way to tell from the below images where to get this stuff (assuming it is even present) without downloading and transferring *everything*? Any sort of index file or something that maps to the zip files? Thanks for any help. rich --- vrs <vrs(a)msn.com> wrote: I made a nice little collection of software by copying the ones at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-8/diskimag… _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com/backtoschool

To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> files? es/rx50/teledisk/ Up and over one, at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-8/diskimag… are the diskette labels. Unfortunately, they don't list the actual files in the images. I would guess that "os278wc" is most likely to have what you want, but I will see if I can verify that. Vince

--- vrs <vrs(a)msn.com> wrote: Thanks much Vince. This will save me alot of time! Appreciate it. rich _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com