Re: DEC PDP-8/E wanted - still looking

2020-11-27 Thread jim stephens via cctalk
On 11/27/2020 3:07 AM, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote: I don't really want to have to learn how to play Adventure to reproduce this. Games are not my thing except maybe chess. Best regards Tom Hunter Adventure immediately types out a 4 or 5 line "room" description, which is in the initial case

Re: DEC PDP-8/E wanted - still looking

2020-11-27 Thread Rick Murphy via cctalk
On 11/27/2020 6:07 AM, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote: Hi Dave, Thanks for Bob Armstrong's old email. I have not seen Jim's VHDL code, but I am quite confident I can fix this. Tom Urban wrote that the IOB6120 is misbehaving, so I will have to do some fault finding or debugging anyway. I would appr

Re: DEC PDP-8/E wanted - still looking

2020-11-27 Thread Tom Hunter via cctalk
> > > Bob > > > > > > *From:* Tom Hunter > *Sent:* 27 November 2020 01:08 > *To:* Dave Wade > *Cc:* General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > *Subject:* Re: DEC PDP-8/E wanted - still looking > > > >

RE: DEC PDP-8/E wanted - still looking

2020-11-27 Thread Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
:-) Bob From: Tom Hunter Sent: 27 November 2020 01:08 To: Dave Wade Cc: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: DEC PDP-8/E wanted - still looking Hi Dave, Could you please explain how exactly the VT emulation "kills" the Fortran run time system in OS

Re: DEC PDP-8/E wanted - still looking

2020-11-26 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
at smecc we have an extra  first model classic-8    in a  rack  the  blue  one  that  a  white  desk  section can mount to     not the Plexiglas surrounds   do not  know what it  would  take  to plexi one  but this is in a  rack.  downside? it is at the back of  a warehouse  so it  would  not  b

Re: DEC PDP-8/E wanted - still looking

2020-11-26 Thread Tom Hunter via cctalk
Hi Dave, Could you please explain how exactly the VT emulation "kills" the Fortran run time system in OS/8? What is the fault? How do you trigger it? Have you got a Fortran code snippet which reproduces the problem? Was there some previous discussion about it answering my questions above? I have a

Re: DEC PDP-8/E wanted - still looking

2020-11-26 Thread Chris Zach via cctalk
We'll see. At the moment I'm not interested in selling either of the 8/L's. The 8/E is a bit more complicated, will have to think about that. C On 11/26/2020 1:01 AM, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote: Tom Uban fully built "Spare Time Gizmos" SBC6120 based computer complete with front-panel and IO

RE: DEC PDP-8/E wanted - still looking

2020-11-26 Thread Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
Tom, If it has an IOB6120 then it the VT emulation kills the Fortran run time system in OS8. Dave G4UGM > -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Tom Hunter via > cctalk > Sent: 26 November 2020 06:02 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: DEC PDP-8