Hi Mike, You wrote below: "I don't know if any of you have interest in this sort of thing." Wow ... Are you kidding!!  :-) I'm sure I speak for at least a few others on this list who love to hack (in the old, more correct usage of the term) hardware and/or software in order to non-maliciously learn stuff, restore something important, and/or at least bring something back to life. Reverse Engineering and creation of solutions at its best and most fun :-) I retired back in March (finally, at age 70) from the major USA-based independent diesel engine maker and plan to work thru a bunch of DEC PDP-11 gear, my DG Nova 1200, IBM 9370 w/9375-60 Processor, several ASR-33 TTYs, plus a flock of other radio & TV restoration and ham radio projects which have been in 'idle storage' for 10-to-50 years. This email subject matter will definitely apply -depending, of course, upon how my wife and I stretch our SS checks, a modest pension and random restoration and consulting work. I need to catch-up on what that 'Zyng thing' is you mention and other recent hardware/software items like this which have appeared in the last decade or so. I personally encourage keeping activity like this going, folks! Thanks much and best regards,     -Chris F. On 12/26/2024 9:02 PM, Mike Rieker via vcf-midatlantic wrote: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hey All, If anyone is interested, I finished a Zynq thing that plugs into the back of my PDP-8/L to provide disk, tape, tty functionality. The thing actually boots and runs OS/8! Anyway I made an Hackaday page https://hackaday.io/project/202048-pdp-8x2fl-enhancements There is also a simple RasPI based board that plugs in the front panel slot to do automated testing. About all I had to do to get the PDP running was replace a few (half dozen or so) 7400 series chips, some corroded diodes on the core stack and a power resistor. Hasn't missed a beat since. I don't know if any of you have interest in this sort of thing. I don't have a PDP-8/I but it might not be too difficult to adapt it to one of those or other PDP-8s and maybe 11s. Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ================================================================ Christian R Fandt Jamestown, NY 14701

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