On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Warren Toomey <w...@tuhs.org> wrote:
> Hi all. Some of you may know me as the guy who set up the Unix Heritage > Society at www.tuhs.org. We've been able to restore some of the old Unix > systems to working order, including a PDP-11/20 version from 1972. > > I've just been given a scan of the assembly listing for PDP-7 Unix > which includes the kernel and some user-mode programs. The scans are > at http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/PDP-11/Distributions/research/McIlroy_v0/ > as the files 0*.pdf. > > I have this crazy idea that this system could be resurrected to working > order on SimH and/or on a real PDP-7. But I'd a) need to learn the PDP-7 > architecture, b) write an assembler, c) OCR the scan (manually) and > d) spend a lot of time debugging something that has no user manual and > may not even work! > > I thought I'd ask here if there is any PDP-7 expertise that I could lean > on if I decided to actually proceed. > > Many thanks in advance for pointers, suggestions, help. > Warren > > P.S I've already found http://www.soemtron.org/pdp7.html > the PDP-7 Reference Manual f75ppdp7prelimumdec64.pdf and > http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp7/` > I did some work with the running PDP-7 at LCM, and Warren let me know this data was available. Unfortunately I have some other commitments right now, but I'll get there... I'm very excited about this. -- Ian -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
