[vcf-midatlantic] Pdp-8 focal @ Kennett Classic

[Bill Degnan]

Dave
Inhave an actual tape with loader prepared.  I get what're saying about the
baud.
  I don't have a run relay.
  I guess we'll see

On Thu, Jul 6, 2023, 10:16 PM David Gesswein via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

> Note if your loading a FOCAL program if whatever is sending baudrate is
> faster than the PDP-8 transmit baud rate the loading will fail after a
> while
> with buffer overrun. I've adjusted the pot on the TTY clock card to make it
> load from a teletype. I'm talking if your using a PC that transmits exactly
> 110 baud and the PDP-8 actually transmits at 108 baud you have problems.
> Loading the FOCAL tape itself doesn't have this problem.
>
> Note that some versions of the FOCAL tape have two sections so without
> reader
> run if you don't hit continue quick enough after the first halt you will
> not
> load the initial dialog.
>
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 09:45:15PM -0400, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic
> wrote:
> > Saturday at the museum we're going to try to load FOCAL from papertape
> into
> > the PDP-8 system.  12 noon to ?  All are welcome.  Also going to document
> > system in detail, measure voltages, etc.
> > Kennettclassic.com
> > Bill
>