PDP-8 CPU question

[Pete Turnbull]

On Jun 18 2005, 11:10, Joe R. wrote:
>   I brought home my PDP-8 yesterday.

Nice haul :-)

>   I also have a question about the diagnostic paper tapes. Does
anyone have
> a ROM emulator or other way to load the diagnostics without using a
PT
> reader? Yes, I know there are some SIMPLE diagnostics that can be
loaded
> from the Programmer's Panal but I concerned about the more extensive
> diagnostics. In fact, I'm wondering if anyone has tried burning the
> diagnostics into PROMs and installing them in place of the Boot Roms
on the
> M8317 card.

The best way is to keep tape image files, or just plain binaries, on a
PC (or whatever) and load them in over a serial line.  Have a look at
the Kevin McQuiggin's PDP-8 page at Highgate:
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/pdp8/

Kevin keeps a mirror of David Gesswein's site which has lots of
diagnostics and documentation, but there are more diagnostic tapes on
Aaron Nabil's site at www.pdp8.org

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York