Hi As pointed out there is some online and Update has a stack of tape that we coul probably work to image. Mattis of www.datormuseum.se is working on a TU5X to usb interface with intention of archiving his 8 and 12 tapes.
It would be great if Lyles tapes could be read. Also, Andreas Sandberg had made a somewhat working emulator _with_ graphics support for the PDP-12. Perhaps his code can be of some help: http://www.update.uu.se/projects/greenpea.php /P On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 09:54:10PM -0400, Bob Supnik wrote: > Al Kossow published a lot of new PDP-12 documents recently, so I > think there's enough to build a simulator. Now that SimH includes > graphics emulation, a PDP-12 emulator is practical, but it only > makes sense if software is available. Has anyone found the software > systems for the PDP-12? It will run OS/8 (probably), but I'm > thinking of its "native" software - DIAL and DEMO. > > There's nothing on Bitsavers except for paper-tapes. pdp8.org claims > to have some Linctapes, but they have not been transcribed. pdp8.net > is down (gone?). Any other sources? Because of differences in > encoding and bit ordering, it may take a running PDP-12 to read a > Linctape. > > The PDP-12 would be easier to emulate than the Linc-8, because the > 12 was one system that has two modes of operation, while the Linc-8 > was actually two separate systems. Neither was a great success, but > SimH is getting to the fringes of the DEC world, like the PDP-15/76, > and not many of those experiments were solid commercial successes. > > /Bob Supnik > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh