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Last Update: January 10th, 2003
This web page contains a number of documents of relevance to those interested
in the Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-8 minicomputer.
Documents cover pdp-8 hardware, software, and supporting materials.
This web page is maintained by Kevin McQuiggin,mcquiggi@sfu.ca.
The documents consist of scanned sets of images in TIFF format. They were
created by David Gesswein
djg@drs-esg.com. Other scans have been contributed by Doug
Coward, dcoward@pressstart.com.
FOCAL 69 is made available courtesy of DEC. It's a copy of the package
distributed with Bob Supnik's pdp-8 simulator, made available here in both RIM
and text formats for your convenience.
The software utilities rim and send were written
by Kevin McQuiggin. They are basic but they work for me. Consider them "alpha"
quality!
The Dump and Restore utilities, a set
of programs that allow you to make image backups of RX01 diskettes, RK05
disks, and Dectapes from your pdp-8 on a PC, and restore these images to their
original media. Format compatible with that used by Bob Supnik's pdp-8 emulator.
A tarred-gzipped archive for UNIX users. Written by David Gesswein
These utilities, in DOS/Windows ZIP
archive format
This is a large file (~69MB) but contains lots of historically
interesting information on the original pdp-8!
This DEC handbook states the following on the rear cover:
"This first edition of the DIGITAL Small Computer Handbook is designed
to be a sourcebook of basic computer technology for the computer user and
student. In addition to detailed material on computer fundamentals and
programming examples, this book includes three user handbooks covering
Digital's popular Family of Eight scientific/engineering computers -
the PDP-8, LINC-8, and the new PDP-8/s."
To view these documents you'll need a utility that can read TIFF Group 4
files.
One package that can do this is "Imaging Pro" from Eastman Software.
Here's a link to the Eastman web site at
http://www.eastmansoftware.com/products/ImagingPro for some information
on this package. Here's a
direct link to the download page for those who are impatient!
Paint Shop Pro 5 from JASC Software can also
load these documents. A multiple page document is read with each page coming
up in a separate Paint Shop Pro window. While not optimal, this works, and
Paint Shop Pro is a great application.
Are you a Mac user? If so, here's a link to
Graphic Converter, a utility that will let you read these TIFF files, and
optionally convert them to other formats, including PDF. This link was provided
by Al Kossow, aek@spies.com.
Other TIFF to PDF conversion utilities from FFII (contributed by
Jos Dreesen):
Highgate's PDP-8 Page
Utilities are available from
FFII (Forderverein fur eine Freie Informationelle Infrastruktur)
which will convert the grouped TIFF files on this site to PDF format!
These utilities are available here
Comments? Contact Kevin McQuiggin at mcquiggi@sfu.ca
