and if you haven't seen Bernhard Baehr's
PDP8/E emulator for
the Mac, you should, assuming you have a Mac on which to run it.
If you haven't seen it you should find a Mac and borrow it long enough to
try it. I know of one list member that bought a Mac to run it (OK, granted
it was a very old cheap one). When I got my PDP-8/m and was trying to get
it running I used the emulator as a diagnostic aid, so I could see what I
should be seeing on the real hardware and better understand what I was
doing.
Zane