Welcome – and watch out where you stick those probes:
EEVBlog -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaELqAo4kkQ
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Hi,
Most of the documentation is found here:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp8/pdp8a/
For some basic testing look here:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp8/pdp8a/EK-8A001-OP-002_PDP-8A_Operators_Handbook_Sep76.pdf
in chapter 5.1 (pdf page number 48).
To do basic memory read and write:
Pres
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> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 08:56:08 -0700
> From: Columbia Valley Maker Space
> Subject: PDP8/a Initial Power Up
>
> Hello everyone - my first post, so be easy on me!
>
> I have just acquired a PDP8/a and a Remex punch tape reader. The unit
> starts up and displays some data on the displays, and t
On Fri, 2 Nov 2018, Columbia Valley Maker Space via cctalk wrote:
Hello everyone - my first post, so be easy on me!
I have just acquired a PDP8/a and a Remex punch tape reader. The unit
starts up and displays some data on the displays, and that is about all
I can tell you.
I am going to do som
http://manx-docs.org/details.php/1,439
some docs online, that might help
Operators manual PDF
ftp://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp8/pdp8a/EK-8A001-OP-002_PDP-8A_Operators_Handbook_Sep76.pdf
and a concise bit that might give you some help too
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/archive/i
> From: Columbia Valley Maker Space
> The unit starts up and displays some data on the displays
You're lucky that worked. Old power supplies need to be brought back to
life in stages.
> something I can enter via the keypad. ... if you are going to suggest
> some tests, I need com
