I did not know of Kevin's site.. Great stuff there. Ed# In a message dated 8/7/2017 2:41:24 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:
On 07/08/2017 18:37, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: > So to-morrow connect up a terminal that will do 110 baud and try an echo > test. > > Next part is interesting. There should be a way to fake a reader / punch > and feed in tape images. There is. Look on Kevin McQuiggin's site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/pdp8/ In the section called "Software", about 1/3 of the way down, look for send.c or better still new-send.c (I call it rsend, on my system). You might also find rim.c and the BIN loader useful. They're also on my webpage, with the corresponding manpages: http://www.dunnington.info/public/PDP-8/ That's the easiest place to get the manpages for rim.c, send.c, rsend.c. Here's the gist (top parts of the manpages): rim - create RIM-format file from ASCII addr/instr rim is a very simple converter. It reads in a file containing two columns of ASCII digits; the first column is a list of addresses (in octal) and the second is a list of machine instructions (also octal). Output is a file suitable to feed to the RIM loader on a PDP-8. send, rsend - send a file in RIM or BIN format to a PDP-8 send and rsend are utilities to transmit a RIM format or BIN format file from a UNIX (or other) host to a PDP-8 over a serial line. The PDP-8 should be running the RIM loader routine prior to starting either of these programs. Input should be a file in RIM format or BIN format. Output goes to the host serial port, which should be connected via appropriate cable to the PDP-8. send is a simple version, with built-in serial port settings and a fixed delay between characters. rsend is more sophisticated; it can be controlled by command-line options or environment variables, and can accept input on stdin. On a Unix (or Linux etc) machine you can pipe the output from rim to rsend, and if you're using papertape images (of which there are load on the net), rsend can strip the headers for you. -- Pete Pete Turnbull
