PDP-8/e

[Brian L. Stuart]

Several years ago when I restored my 8/M, I whipped up
a quick and dirty program that uses TCL/Tk to make a
little graphical interface for selecting, reading, and punching
paper tape images.  When running, it looks something
like this:

https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/museum/asrscreen.jpg

You need the P9P (Plan9 from user space) libraries installed
to build it, but I could whip up a binary for you if you'd like
to try it out.  I typically run it in a shell script that looks like:

#!/bin/sh

xterm -vb -sb -geom +180+10 -fg '#D0D0FF' -bg black -e asr33 $*


BLS

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On Fri, 12/7/18, Rod G8DGR via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

 Subject: PDP-8/e
 To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
 Date: Friday, December 7, 2018, 4:59 AM
 
 
 Hi All
    Seasons Greetings..
 
 My PDP-8/e was long due for a major
 overhaul. 
 1. So everything out
 2. Big Hoover job on the Omnibus 
 3. Bring up on Variac – No smoke
 4. Check  PSU volts. – All OK
 5. Power off
 6. Install minimal System – Front
 Panel, Three CPU cards, RFI shield,  4k Core and Bus
 term.
 7. Yup all looks in right order
 8. Power on
 9. Toggle in standard AC count up
 program
 10. Clear + Cont 
 11. And they are racing at
 Rockingham!!
 12. Yup counts up just like it should.
 13. Let it run for a while.
 14. All stop.
 15. PSU off
 16. Inset Async Card (Its 110 baud
 only)
 17. Fire up VT100. Beep - yup its
 alive.
 18. Toggle in keyboard echo test.
 19. Clear + Cont – Program runs
 20. And .. yes keyboard gets echoed
 back.
 
 OK now I need a little help. 
 Does anybody know of a terminal
 emulation program that will simulate the reader on an
 ASR33?
 I know about   RIM and BIN loaders
 but how and what to feed them I have long forgotten
 My PDP-8 course completion certificate
 is dated November 1975.
 
 Rod Smallwood
 
 
 
 Sent from Mail for Windows 10