I already used EK-FFP8A-MM-001 and the Handbook and could figure out about
half the registers.  I'm not by my code right now but I will send a message
listing the ones I couldn't figure out later tonight. While I was thinking
of amending the documentation to include the FFP8A.

Thanks
Ray
On Apr 8, 2016 7:15 PM, "Rick Murphy" <s...@rickmurphy.net> wrote:

> At 04:15 PM 4/8/2016, Ray Jewhurst wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to expand the help files on some of simulators and noticed
>> that I can't find much information for the PDP-8 FPP.  I have current
>> documentation but there are no references to the FPP at all.  If anyone
>> can point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate.  I'm also
>> checking to see if I can get any relevant information from Bitsavers.
>>
>
> The most comprehensive documentation is the Maintenance Manual:
>
> http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp8/pdp8a/EK-FPP8A-MM-001_FPP8-A_Maint_Sep76.pdf
>
> Chapter 2 has the register info.
>
> Also, FPP-12 documentation, for example
> http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/pdp12/fpp12/
> The FPP-8A and FPP-12 are register compatible. The FPP-8 has a few tweaks
> but it's generally quite compatible.
>
> If you want any review of whatever documentation you end up writing, I'll
> be happy to help (I did a bunch of work on the SIMH FPP-8A simulation to
> get it working and make it compatible with the real FPP.)
>         -Rick
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