PiDP-8

On Monday, August 26, 2019 at 3:30:17 PM UTC-6, Obsolescence wrote: that whole procedure needs to be

Tonight I updated my Pidp-8 to use the latest 32bit Trixie Lite PI OS. Also wanted to try out

Just some possible observations regarding reducing in size ... One fairly obvious thing would be to

I found an answer to my question #2. It was complicated by the presence of XLIST in 8NFIO already.

The code in DECUS 8-436 was most helpful. Their DVI emulation was smaller than mine and mostly

Although it is nearly 50 years since I wrote serious PDP8 code, I decided to treat this as an

Yup, typo. should be WRITE(4,30). -Rick On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM timr...@gmail.com <

Ok. That's true. But most of us were not allowed to patch it as it was running 24/7 except for

Hi Steve, I don't know why, but Google Groups sent some of your replies for moderation. As soon

I put the OP's full question into perplexity.ai. I never asked it to write code before. The

FWIW, my understanding is that the settings on TTIX are mirrored for TTOX. Setting TTOX to 8B should

Hi Mike, I'm not sure this is going to be of any help, but ... Seems that the latest

Bill, That sounds to me like a good option. Let me know what I can do to help. -- steve On Sunday,

Well that certainly explains things. I will go back in a look much closer. Still trying to learn so

This is why I say, get one of the better (Prolific or FTCI) based USB to RS-232C converters. They are

This is what I too was thinking. But was not sure. Good to know. On Monday, August 4, 2025 at 11:05:

According to the documentation to use a USB serial port adapter for output on a port other than 03/04

Hi all, I made a post to the fossil forum on tangentsoft.com some months ago, but it has been stuck

And here's a version of KAB (one dimensional Pong) source code that should be read-able on a Mac

I think Gripe came about in 8.24? Our system ran 8.22b for most of my time there. About a month

Never mind. It was me not having set the right parity on the terminal. All works great now. I had it

The sound and smell of a TT is magical to me. The first real connection with a computer. The U's

How did you shut down OS/8 and Simh? A power off may have corrupted your SD card if something was

Thank you for the help and the Basic tutorial. On Friday, June 20, 2025 at 3:22:45 PM UTC-7 tange...@

You might find these relevant: https://so-much-stuff.com/pdp8/software/decus.php#decus-basic8-1 https

The plot thickens. After running for the better part of the day, it is now at 4.9%. On Saturday, June

I can't remember all of the gory details but ASR-33 paper tape readers require a special mod to

I will soon receive an ASR-33 and I will need roll paper, 1" rolled (preferably oiled) paper

Hi Rick, Thanks again for this. I sort of got the macro(s) to run if I don't load a file for

It is possible the "disk" the pidp-8 is using got corrupted not being shut down properly. I

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