Short version - I'm looking for copies of the PDP-8 software for the DEC MPS, MIcroProcessor System.
Longer form, since it wasn't very well known - DEC made an 8008 (yes, 8008, not 8080) microprocessor based system on a set of three quad sized modules, plus a really nifty looking lights and switches front panel. It's not clear what DEC expected customers to do with it; I guess use it to build an embedded control system for things that were too simple for a PDP-8 or -11. In any case, DEC made a whole software development toolchain for the MPS and 8008 using a PDP-8 as a host computer. There was a cross assembler (aka MPA), a downloader (aka MPL), a specialized text editor (yes, MPE), a debugger (you guessed it - called MPD), a EPROM programmer, and several other miscellaneous tools. They were all distributed on paper tape and I believe they were intended to run on a basic 8/E and Teletype, without mass storage and without OS/8. If anybody has these, I'd love to get copies of the tape images. Thanks, Bob
