[GreenKeys] DEC connectivity

[gil smith]

Hi John:

Did you by any chance build one of those PDP-8e clones from Spare Time 
Gizmos?  It was a year or two ago.  I built one and I think Bill Buzbee did 
as well.

I have not done much with it, but I'd like to have it talk to my M33.  I 
believe the 33 was the console provided by DEC with the early PDP machines.

But all I have done with the 8e clone is to load OS8 over the serial 
port.  Do you know whether os tweaks are needed to provide tty i/o?  What I 
would like, is to have FORTRAN running on the 8e,  via the M33.  A few 
digital i/o pins as well, and I could have it do something interesting.

thanks,

gil


At 10:19 AM 11/7/2004, John Lawson wrote:
>   Just got back from a (truncated) visit to the 7th annual Vintage 
> Computer Festival in Mountain View, CA...  one of my other twisted 
> afflictions, apart from heavy old Teletypes, is collecting and restoring 
> heavy old computers - I specialize in DEC (Digital Equipment Corp) 
> minicomputer systems.
>...
>Cheers
>
>John  KB6SCO
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