On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 7:19 PM Kyle Owen wrote:
> However, it appears as though word count will be hit by the loading of the
> first block. In fact, my instrumented version of SimH says it's overwritten
> with a zero. If that's the case, it would seem as though the word count
> overflow flag
My understanding of the OS/8 TC08 bootloader (MI8-EC) is as follows:
0. Rewind tape
1. Set current address (07755) to 07600
2. Set word count (07754) to -0200
3. Read block 0 and wait for flag
4. Continue executing at 07600
However, it appears as though word count will be hit by the loading of
> On Mar 20, 2021, at 4:21 PM, Kyle Owen via cctalk
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> On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 16:13 Paul Koning wrote
>
>> Speculating here since I have no direct knowledge: the DECtape format
>> allows read and write in either direction, while LINCtape only allows read
>> and write forward. The
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 16:13 Paul Koning wrote
> Speculating here since I have no direct knowledge: the DECtape format
> allows read and write in either direction, while LINCtape only allows read
> and write forward. The bidirectional I/O capability was part of DECtape
> format from the start,
> On Mar 20, 2021, at 4:07 PM, Kyle Owen via cctalk
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> Why did DEC not use the LINCtape format for the PDP-8? I assume maintaining
> format compatibility between their low, mid, and high range systems was
> important to them? I suppose there was no other good solution to
>
Why did DEC not use the LINCtape format for the PDP-8? I assume maintaining
format compatibility between their low, mid, and high range systems was
important to them? I suppose there was no other good solution to
transferring large files across different DEC platforms than to use
magnetic
Hi,
I just wanted to thank Tony for asking the question (disability vs. masks)
and particularly wanted to thank Robert for the kindness of answering it!
I learned something today!
Stan
Hello!
Does anyone have any old documentation for ODE 2.1.1, or relatively close
versions? I know "newer" versions have been released and have documentation
available, but there are some changes in some of the config files that are very
different from older versions.
For example when
On 3/19/2021 7:00 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
But, there have been no verified accounts of giant squid attacks in Wall,
NJ.
I know Evan is doing a lot of train installation at his house, but I
suspect that and the Miata are distractions so we don't see the large
pool sized aquarium in
These arrived this morning and they are scanned and OCR'd here:-
https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ag4BJfE5B3onlY9td7hHhHPnUKV2bA?e=hDKwES
I think I can scan at lower resolution and/or grey scale as these are a bit on
the huge side
Dave
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